The Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in organizational communication and technology to begin fall 2012. Applicants must have a strong record of teaching, a willingness to teach large undergraduate sections, published scholarship in organizational communication, a demonstrated ability to actively pursue external funding, and Ph.D. in hand preferred. All methodological approaches and theoretical orientations are welcome.
The committee will begin considering candidates immediately and will entertain candidates until the position is filled. Applications should include a letter of application, curriculum vitae, copies of publications, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and three letters of recommendation. Materials should be sent to: Professor Larry Browning, Search Committee Chair, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Communication Studies, 1 University Station A1105, Austin, TX 78712. The College of Communication is committed to achieving diversity in its faculty, students, and curriculum, and it welcomes applicants who can help achieve these objectives. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.
The University of Texas at Austin is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer.
For a full list of Employment Opportunities available, click here.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Employment Opportunity: Purchase College
The School of Natural and Social Sciences at Purchase College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Anthropology at the Assistant Professor level beginning fall 2012. The successful candidate will teach core courses in cultural anthropology and electives in Anthropology, Gender Studies, and Media, Society & the Arts. We seek candidates with research expertise in new immigrant societies in the urban U.S., with an emphasis on South Asian Islamic cultures and transnational gender/sexuality studies. As part of regular teaching duties, faculty will teach a course per year in the freshman general education program. Evidence of excellence in teaching and scholarly potential are essential.
Purchase College is an undergraduate institution located 25 miles north of New York City. It houses a unique combination of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Conservatory programs. The faculty is committed to providing a rigorous curriculum designed to prepare students for graduate work. Potential for excellence in teaching, as well as evidence of scholarly potential is essential.
For further information about this, and other employment opportunities, click here.
Purchase College is an undergraduate institution located 25 miles north of New York City. It houses a unique combination of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Conservatory programs. The faculty is committed to providing a rigorous curriculum designed to prepare students for graduate work. Potential for excellence in teaching, as well as evidence of scholarly potential is essential.
For further information about this, and other employment opportunities, click here.
Employment Opportunities: University of Cincinnati
PUBLIC RELATIONS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
The Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati seeks to hire a tenure-track assistant professor to conduct research and teach in the area of Public Relations and Persuasive Campaigns. All tenure track faculty are expected to engage in research, teaching and service activities. For this position, we seek an outstanding individual whose research program examines public relations, issue management, and/or persuasive campaigns in a variety of sectors (governmental/public, non-profit and corporate/for profit), along with contemporary trends such as social media and globalization. We also seek applicants whose research can contribute to our departmental mission (addressing communication, participation, and engaged social problems). Professional experience and ability to obtain and conduct sponsored research are desirable but not required. In addition, the successful candidate will be expected to teach courses that support our undergraduate major and growing public relations certificate program (e.g. Communication Research Methods and Public Relations Campaigns), and who would also develop and teach topical courses in their areas of expertise that support and extend our MA program. The teaching load for tenure track faculty is two courses per semester term.
Qualifications: Completed Ph.D. required by 31 July, 2012, evidence of research and publication activity, and evidence of teaching effectiveness.
Applicants for this position must apply online by going to www.jobsatuc.com (job#211UC1699). Cover letter should address the candidate's fit with both the position and Departmental Mission. Vita, cover letter, and samples of scholarly work can also be posted on-line.
Send copy of graduate transcripts, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and three letters of recommendation to: Teresa Sabourin, Search Committee Chair, Department of Communication, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210184, Cincinnati OH 45221-0184. Completed applications will be reviewed beginning on November 1, 2011. The University of Cincinnati is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women, people of color, people with disability and veterans are encouraged to apply.
HEALTH/ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
The Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati seeks to hire a tenure-track assistant professor to conduct research and teach in the area of Health and/or Environmental Communication. All tenure track faculty engage in research, teaching and service activities. For this position, we seek an outstanding individual whose research program examines urban or community-based dimensions of health and/or environmental communication, such as health disparities, environmental justice, advocacy campaigns, and public participation in policy-making. Ability to obtain and conduct sponsored research in these areas is desirable but not required. In addition, the successful candidate will be expected to teach existing undergraduate courses in health and/or environmental communication as well as core courses that support our undergraduate major (such as rhetorical or communication theory or research methods), and to develop and teach topical courses that support and extend our MA program. The teaching load for tenure track faculty members is two courses per semester term.
Qualifications: Completed Ph.D. required by 31 July, 2012, evidence of research and publication activity, and evidence of teaching effectiveness.
Applicants for this position must apply online by going to www.jobsatuc.com (job#211UC1721). Cover letter should address the candidate's fit with both the position and Departmental Mission. Vita, cover letter, and samples of scholarly work can also be posted on-line.
Send copy of graduate transcripts, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and three letters of recommendation to: Teresa Sabourin, Search Committee Chair, Department of Communication, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210184, Cincinnati OH 45221-0184. Completed applications will be reviewed beginning on November 1, 2011. The University of Cincinnati is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women, people of color, people with disability and veterans are encouraged to apply.
The Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati seeks to hire a tenure-track assistant professor to conduct research and teach in the area of Public Relations and Persuasive Campaigns. All tenure track faculty are expected to engage in research, teaching and service activities. For this position, we seek an outstanding individual whose research program examines public relations, issue management, and/or persuasive campaigns in a variety of sectors (governmental/public, non-profit and corporate/for profit), along with contemporary trends such as social media and globalization. We also seek applicants whose research can contribute to our departmental mission (addressing communication, participation, and engaged social problems). Professional experience and ability to obtain and conduct sponsored research are desirable but not required. In addition, the successful candidate will be expected to teach courses that support our undergraduate major and growing public relations certificate program (e.g. Communication Research Methods and Public Relations Campaigns), and who would also develop and teach topical courses in their areas of expertise that support and extend our MA program. The teaching load for tenure track faculty is two courses per semester term.
Qualifications: Completed Ph.D. required by 31 July, 2012, evidence of research and publication activity, and evidence of teaching effectiveness.
Applicants for this position must apply online by going to www.jobsatuc.com (job#211UC1699). Cover letter should address the candidate's fit with both the position and Departmental Mission. Vita, cover letter, and samples of scholarly work can also be posted on-line.
Send copy of graduate transcripts, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and three letters of recommendation to: Teresa Sabourin, Search Committee Chair, Department of Communication, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210184, Cincinnati OH 45221-0184. Completed applications will be reviewed beginning on November 1, 2011. The University of Cincinnati is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women, people of color, people with disability and veterans are encouraged to apply.
HEALTH/ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
The Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati seeks to hire a tenure-track assistant professor to conduct research and teach in the area of Health and/or Environmental Communication. All tenure track faculty engage in research, teaching and service activities. For this position, we seek an outstanding individual whose research program examines urban or community-based dimensions of health and/or environmental communication, such as health disparities, environmental justice, advocacy campaigns, and public participation in policy-making. Ability to obtain and conduct sponsored research in these areas is desirable but not required. In addition, the successful candidate will be expected to teach existing undergraduate courses in health and/or environmental communication as well as core courses that support our undergraduate major (such as rhetorical or communication theory or research methods), and to develop and teach topical courses that support and extend our MA program. The teaching load for tenure track faculty members is two courses per semester term.
Qualifications: Completed Ph.D. required by 31 July, 2012, evidence of research and publication activity, and evidence of teaching effectiveness.
Applicants for this position must apply online by going to www.jobsatuc.com (job#211UC1721). Cover letter should address the candidate's fit with both the position and Departmental Mission. Vita, cover letter, and samples of scholarly work can also be posted on-line.
Send copy of graduate transcripts, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and three letters of recommendation to: Teresa Sabourin, Search Committee Chair, Department of Communication, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210184, Cincinnati OH 45221-0184. Completed applications will be reviewed beginning on November 1, 2011. The University of Cincinnati is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women, people of color, people with disability and veterans are encouraged to apply.
Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning October Newsletter
Headlines
WTS Moves to the Wells Information Commons
Writing Tutorial Services (WTS) has moved to the Information Commons on the first floor of the Wells Library. Read More
Faculty Learning Community Participants Announced
This fall faculty members in two new FLCs will begin working together to investigate ways to improve teaching and learning in settings as diverse as Second Life and the traditional large lecture hall. Read More
Faculty Spotlight: Making Connections in a Large Lecture Course
Joe Pomerening wants to know what his students are thinking, even if it's wrong. For him, it's part of the learning process that can be fostered by an engaging and enthusiastic classroom experience. Read More
Oncourse Announcements E-mail List
The Oncourse Announcements e-mail list provides timely and important updates about Oncourse—tips, updates, and notices regarding maintenance times and availability. Read More
Mimi Ito to Speak
Mimi Ito, cultural anthropologist of technology use and a leading authority on how social networking and mobile technologies are shaping society, will speak at the Statewide IT Conference on September 30. Read More
From the Director: Engaging Students through eText
IU's new eText initiative offers instructors ways to encourage student engagement with textbooks and redefine how we provide content to students. Read More
Events
Clickers: Beyond Attendance
Tuesday, October 4, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, Redbud Room, IMU
How can you use clickers to more actively engage your students? Join Christina Melki, IUB's Turning Technology intern, to learn two techniques that you can use in your clicker classroom. Read More and Register
Making Teaching More Effective
Thursday, October 6th, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM, IMU
In morning, lunchtime, and afternoon events, IUB faculty share their scholarship and reflections on how evidence-based teaching has affected student learning. Read More and Register
"Spotlight on Innovation" Poster Session
Thursday, October 6th, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Frangipani Room, IMU
Please join your colleagues at this gathering that features poster presentations and other materials representing work by local scholars of teaching and learning. (This is the noon session of the event described above.) Read More and Register
Master Class: How Do You Teach Critical Thinking Skills and Hold Students Accountable for Their Own Learning in a Large Class? Use a Case Study!
Wednesday, October 12, 1:25 - 2:45 PM, Jordan Hall A100 (nature video starts about 1:10)
Observe Assistant Professor Kristi Montooth as she holds students accountable for their own learning using Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) and worksheets in an introductory biology class of 125-150 students. Read More and Register
Service Learning Coffee Hour, "Establishing Appropriate Student Service-Learning Behavior"
Friday, October 14, 9:30 - 11:00 AM, La Casa (715 E. 7th St.)
Faculty and graduate students from various departments and schools are invited to gather for an informal discussion on how to establish appropriate student service-learning behavior. Coffee and tea will be provided. RSVP to iubosl@indiana.edu by Friday, October 7.
e-Textbooks at Indiana University: A Summary of Two Years of Research
Alan Dennis, Kelley School of Business
Friday, October 28, 10:30 AM - 12:00 noon, Walnut Room, IMU
This presentation discusses results of a two-year SOTL study about student behaviors and attitudes when using e-textbooks (Courseload) in 22 classes at IUB and IUPUI. Read More and Register
WTS Moves to the Wells Information Commons
Writing Tutorial Services (WTS) has moved to the Information Commons on the first floor of the Wells Library. Read More
Faculty Learning Community Participants Announced
This fall faculty members in two new FLCs will begin working together to investigate ways to improve teaching and learning in settings as diverse as Second Life and the traditional large lecture hall. Read More
Faculty Spotlight: Making Connections in a Large Lecture Course
Joe Pomerening wants to know what his students are thinking, even if it's wrong. For him, it's part of the learning process that can be fostered by an engaging and enthusiastic classroom experience. Read More
Oncourse Announcements E-mail List
The Oncourse Announcements e-mail list provides timely and important updates about Oncourse—tips, updates, and notices regarding maintenance times and availability. Read More
Mimi Ito to Speak
Mimi Ito, cultural anthropologist of technology use and a leading authority on how social networking and mobile technologies are shaping society, will speak at the Statewide IT Conference on September 30. Read More
From the Director: Engaging Students through eText
IU's new eText initiative offers instructors ways to encourage student engagement with textbooks and redefine how we provide content to students. Read More
Events
Clickers: Beyond Attendance
Tuesday, October 4, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, Redbud Room, IMU
How can you use clickers to more actively engage your students? Join Christina Melki, IUB's Turning Technology intern, to learn two techniques that you can use in your clicker classroom. Read More and Register
Making Teaching More Effective
Thursday, October 6th, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM, IMU
In morning, lunchtime, and afternoon events, IUB faculty share their scholarship and reflections on how evidence-based teaching has affected student learning. Read More and Register
"Spotlight on Innovation" Poster Session
Thursday, October 6th, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Frangipani Room, IMU
Please join your colleagues at this gathering that features poster presentations and other materials representing work by local scholars of teaching and learning. (This is the noon session of the event described above.) Read More and Register
Master Class: How Do You Teach Critical Thinking Skills and Hold Students Accountable for Their Own Learning in a Large Class? Use a Case Study!
Wednesday, October 12, 1:25 - 2:45 PM, Jordan Hall A100 (nature video starts about 1:10)
Observe Assistant Professor Kristi Montooth as she holds students accountable for their own learning using Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) and worksheets in an introductory biology class of 125-150 students. Read More and Register
Service Learning Coffee Hour, "Establishing Appropriate Student Service-Learning Behavior"
Friday, October 14, 9:30 - 11:00 AM, La Casa (715 E. 7th St.)
Faculty and graduate students from various departments and schools are invited to gather for an informal discussion on how to establish appropriate student service-learning behavior. Coffee and tea will be provided. RSVP to iubosl@indiana.edu by Friday, October 7.
e-Textbooks at Indiana University: A Summary of Two Years of Research
Alan Dennis, Kelley School of Business
Friday, October 28, 10:30 AM - 12:00 noon, Walnut Room, IMU
This presentation discusses results of a two-year SOTL study about student behaviors and attitudes when using e-textbooks (Courseload) in 22 classes at IUB and IUPUI. Read More and Register
CFP: General Online Research
The German Society for Online Research (DGOF) invites participation in its annual conference. This year’s conference especially encourages submissions in:
Online survey research methodology
Applied market research
Social Media Research, Social Networks and Civil Society
The program committee invites presenters from academia, the private sector, official statistics and the government. The quality is maintained by a double blind peer reviewing system.
For further information, click here.
Online survey research methodology
Applied market research
Social Media Research, Social Networks and Civil Society
The program committee invites presenters from academia, the private sector, official statistics and the government. The quality is maintained by a double blind peer reviewing system.
For further information, click here.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Room Change for Henry Jenkins Brown Bag
Please note that the room number has been changed for the Graduate Student Brown Bag on Friday, September 30. The new room is RTV 180.
The full schedule is available here.
The full schedule is available here.
Presidential Forum and Reception
Vice President for International Affairs David Zaret
and the
Dhar India Studies Program
invite you to a Presidential Forum and Reception
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
4 – 5 pm
Grand Foyer of IU Auditorium Bloomington
President Michael McRobbie will speak about the recent trip of the IU delegation to India.
There will be an opportunity for questions and informal conversation with members of the delegation.
The delegation is especially eager to welcome faculty and students who study India, all faculty and student visitors from India, and all other members of the IU community with ties to India.
Video streaming will be available at
http://www.broadcast.iu.edu/
Please reply to OVPIA@indiana.edu by September 29th if you plan to attend.
and the
Dhar India Studies Program
invite you to a Presidential Forum and Reception
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
4 – 5 pm
Grand Foyer of IU Auditorium Bloomington
President Michael McRobbie will speak about the recent trip of the IU delegation to India.
There will be an opportunity for questions and informal conversation with members of the delegation.
The delegation is especially eager to welcome faculty and students who study India, all faculty and student visitors from India, and all other members of the IU community with ties to India.
Video streaming will be available at
http://www.broadcast.iu.edu/
Please reply to OVPIA@indiana.edu by September 29th if you plan to attend.
Henry Jenkins' Blog Features Post by CMCL Chair, Alex Doty
In anticipation of Henry Jenkins visit to Indiana University this Friday, this post from Jenkins' blog, Confessions of an ACA-Fan, written by CMCL's Chair Alex Doty, seems especially apropos. Thanks to MA student Ben Grimwood for bringing it to our attention.
IU Media Preservation Initiative Task Force Finding Now Available For Downlaod
At Indiana University Bloomington, a task force has been working for a few years on a master plan for the preservation of audio, video, and film media that is held on this campus. Some of these items are cared for in archives and libraries while others are held in departments and centers. IU has a significant number of rare or unique recordings of important cultural and historical value. A thorough survey of media held on campus in 2009 revealed over 560,000 objects and many are at risk due to either the deterioration of media or format obsolescence (or both). Accessibility is also a challenge for many content holders.
The Media Preservation Initiative Task force has just completed a report that outlines a series of recommendations for media preservation and access on the Bloomington campus that will impact many who are working with legacy and born-digital media that is or will be preserved by IU Bloomington.
This 128-page report entitled "Meeting the Challenge of Media Preservation: Strategies and Solutions" is available for download at
http://www.indiana.edu/~medpres/
"Meeting the Challenge" is the result of a year of research and planning by a campus-wide task force charged with addressing the problems identified in the earlier IU Bloomington media preservation survey report published in 2009. "Meeting the Challenge" explores a range of topics related to the preservation and conservation of audio, video, and film, including: guiding preservation principles, facility planning, prioritization, digitization methodologies, strategies for film, principles for access, technological infrastructure needs, and engagement with campus units and priorities. Although developed specifically for the Bloomington campus, the findings and analyses in "Meeting the Challenge" may be useful to universities and other organizations with media holdings.
Further information and both reports are available on the IU Bloomington media preservation website at the url provided above.
The Media Preservation Initiative Task force has just completed a report that outlines a series of recommendations for media preservation and access on the Bloomington campus that will impact many who are working with legacy and born-digital media that is or will be preserved by IU Bloomington.
This 128-page report entitled "Meeting the Challenge of Media Preservation: Strategies and Solutions" is available for download at
http://www.indiana.edu/~medpres/
"Meeting the Challenge" is the result of a year of research and planning by a campus-wide task force charged with addressing the problems identified in the earlier IU Bloomington media preservation survey report published in 2009. "Meeting the Challenge" explores a range of topics related to the preservation and conservation of audio, video, and film, including: guiding preservation principles, facility planning, prioritization, digitization methodologies, strategies for film, principles for access, technological infrastructure needs, and engagement with campus units and priorities. Although developed specifically for the Bloomington campus, the findings and analyses in "Meeting the Challenge" may be useful to universities and other organizations with media holdings.
Further information and both reports are available on the IU Bloomington media preservation website at the url provided above.
CFP - Sexuality on Television
Sexual content on television produces one of the richest debates over the politics, effects, and implications of representations of sexuality. Arthurs (2004) observes that television is a primary public forum for the regulation of sexuality across fictional and factual genres, addressing concerns such as sexual morality in public and private spheres [e.g., Brown, 2002; Jaker et. al, 1992], changing patterns of family life [e.g., Coontz, 1992; Kundanis, 2003], and the limits of sexual representation in a deregulated media market [Becker, 2004; Gross, 1994; Kim et. al, 2007]. While scholars agree this topic is important, fragmentation and disciplinary narrowing of the study of sexuality on television has often prohibited engaging in meaningful academic dialogue about the importance of studying televised sexuality.
The purpose of this special issue of Sexuality & Culture is for scholars to engage the topic of sexuality on television. As an interdisciplinary journal, Sexuality & Culture is particularly committed to engaging diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. We seek manuscripts that speak across disciplinary boundaries.
For furhter information, click here.
The purpose of this special issue of Sexuality & Culture is for scholars to engage the topic of sexuality on television. As an interdisciplinary journal, Sexuality & Culture is particularly committed to engaging diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. We seek manuscripts that speak across disciplinary boundaries.
For furhter information, click here.
Calls for Papers and Submissions
There have been quite a few new calls added to the list. Visit the Calls for Papers or Submissions from the top of the Links Menu to your right, or click here for the full listing.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
CFP: SWTXPCA Film (General) Area
Proposals are now being accepted until December 1, 2011, for the Film (General) Area at the 2012 SWTX PCA/ACA Conference. We invite you to submit presentations about contemporary and classic film, ranging from critical essays to analyses employing recognized research methodologies. Paper presentations should be no more than 20 minutes.
For individual presentations, submit a proposal with the following items:
* maximum 250-word abstract, including paper/presentation title;
* current curriculum vitae;
* working bibliography for your paper; and
* e-mail address
Proposals for panels of 3-4 presenters are also welcome. To propose a panel, submit the following:
* panel title;
* name, address, and email information about the panel chair;
* titles and abstracts of each paper; and
* e-mail address for each presenter.
Submit all proposals to http://conference2012.swtxpca.org.
For full listing of CFPs, click here.
For individual presentations, submit a proposal with the following items:
* maximum 250-word abstract, including paper/presentation title;
* current curriculum vitae;
* working bibliography for your paper; and
* e-mail address
Proposals for panels of 3-4 presenters are also welcome. To propose a panel, submit the following:
* panel title;
* name, address, and email information about the panel chair;
* titles and abstracts of each paper; and
* e-mail address for each presenter.
Submit all proposals to http://conference2012.swtxpca.org.
For full listing of CFPs, click here.
Henry Jenkins Visits IU This Friday
Prof. Jenkins will be at IU for the following 3 events (all scheduled for Friday September 30). All events are free and open to the public:
EVENT 1:
Friday September 30
11:15AM-12:30PM
RTV 180 (IUB, 790 E Kirkwood Ave):
Graduate Student Brown Bag discussion with Professor Jenkins, in partnership with the Department of Telecommunications' Media Arts and Sciences Lecture Series. Graduate students get first dibs on lunches provided (first come, first served). Join the conversation with Professor Jenkins as he discusses the threads that connect his distinguished and interdisciplinary scholarship.
EVENT 2:
Friday September 30
1:30PM-3:00PM
Optometry 105 (IUB, 744 East 3rd Street):
The Rob Kling Center for Social Infomatics (RKCSI), in partnership with Digital@IU, Indiana University’s Department of Communication and Culture, The School of Education, Department of Telecommunications, and the Sawyer Seminar on Science Studies, presents:
Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California
RKCSI LECTURE SERIES TITLE: Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture
ABSTRACT: Of all of the changes in the new media environment over the past two decades, perhaps the biggest has been a shift in how media content circulates -- away from top-down corporate controlled distribution and into a still emerging hybrid system where everyday people play an increasingly central role in how media spreads. Cultural Studies has historically been centered around issues of production and reception and has had much less to say about circulation. What issues emerge when we put the process of grassroots (often unauthorized) circulation at the center of our focus? How does it change our accounts of the relationships between mass media and participatory culture? How might it shake up existing models of viral media and web 2.0? This far-reaching talk, based on a forthcoming book which Henry Jenkins has authored with Sam Ford and Joshua Green, offers snapshots of a culture-in-process, a media ecology which is still taking shape, suggesting what it means not only for the futures of entertainment but also of civic life.
EVENT 3:
Friday September 30
5PM-7PM
FARMbloomington (108 East Kirkwood Ave),
Please join us, from 5PM-7PM at FARMbloomington, for a reception honoring Henry and celebrating the launch of the Digital@IU initiative, a research collaboration of faculty and graduate students from the Departments of Communication and Culture, Telecommunications, and the School of Journalism. Free appetizers and a cash bar will be provided. Get to the party before the good eats disappear!
Jenkins Bio:
Henry Jenkins is the Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He arrived at USC in Fall 2009 after spending the past decade as the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of twelve books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture and From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. His newest books include Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. He is currently co-authoring a book on "spreadable media" with Sam Ford and Joshua Green. He has written for Technology Review, Computer Games, Salon, and The Huffington Post.
BONUS!
Cultural anthropologist Dr. Mimi Ito will deliver a keynote at the 2011 Statewide IT Conference (http://citl.indiana.edu/news/Mimi_Ito.php), in the Whittennberger Auditorium at 3:30 pm on Friday Sept. 30 to be followed by a roundtable discussion with Stacy Morrone, associate dean for learning technologies, and Sonya Stephens, vice-provost for undergraduate education. In her presentation "Connected Learning In the Networked Age," Ito will discuss how today's young people are growing up in a very different ecology of culture and knowledge than that experienced by earlier generations. The Internet, digital media production tools, portable media, and immersive social gaming environments are part of broad-based shifts in how we express ourselves, produce and access knowledge, and connect with others. Mimo Ito is an expert on the content of educational games and software, their production, distribution, marketing, and how children use them in play.
EVENT 1:
Friday September 30
11:15AM-12:30PM
RTV 180 (IUB, 790 E Kirkwood Ave):
Graduate Student Brown Bag discussion with Professor Jenkins, in partnership with the Department of Telecommunications' Media Arts and Sciences Lecture Series. Graduate students get first dibs on lunches provided (first come, first served). Join the conversation with Professor Jenkins as he discusses the threads that connect his distinguished and interdisciplinary scholarship.
EVENT 2:
Friday September 30
1:30PM-3:00PM
Optometry 105 (IUB, 744 East 3rd Street):
The Rob Kling Center for Social Infomatics (RKCSI), in partnership with Digital@IU, Indiana University’s Department of Communication and Culture, The School of Education, Department of Telecommunications, and the Sawyer Seminar on Science Studies, presents:
Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California
RKCSI LECTURE SERIES TITLE: Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture
ABSTRACT: Of all of the changes in the new media environment over the past two decades, perhaps the biggest has been a shift in how media content circulates -- away from top-down corporate controlled distribution and into a still emerging hybrid system where everyday people play an increasingly central role in how media spreads. Cultural Studies has historically been centered around issues of production and reception and has had much less to say about circulation. What issues emerge when we put the process of grassroots (often unauthorized) circulation at the center of our focus? How does it change our accounts of the relationships between mass media and participatory culture? How might it shake up existing models of viral media and web 2.0? This far-reaching talk, based on a forthcoming book which Henry Jenkins has authored with Sam Ford and Joshua Green, offers snapshots of a culture-in-process, a media ecology which is still taking shape, suggesting what it means not only for the futures of entertainment but also of civic life.
EVENT 3:
Friday September 30
5PM-7PM
FARMbloomington (108 East Kirkwood Ave),
Please join us, from 5PM-7PM at FARMbloomington, for a reception honoring Henry and celebrating the launch of the Digital@IU initiative, a research collaboration of faculty and graduate students from the Departments of Communication and Culture, Telecommunications, and the School of Journalism. Free appetizers and a cash bar will be provided. Get to the party before the good eats disappear!
Jenkins Bio:
Henry Jenkins is the Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He arrived at USC in Fall 2009 after spending the past decade as the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of twelve books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture and From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. His newest books include Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. He is currently co-authoring a book on "spreadable media" with Sam Ford and Joshua Green. He has written for Technology Review, Computer Games, Salon, and The Huffington Post.
BONUS!
Cultural anthropologist Dr. Mimi Ito will deliver a keynote at the 2011 Statewide IT Conference (http://citl.indiana.edu/news/Mimi_Ito.php), in the Whittennberger Auditorium at 3:30 pm on Friday Sept. 30 to be followed by a roundtable discussion with Stacy Morrone, associate dean for learning technologies, and Sonya Stephens, vice-provost for undergraduate education. In her presentation "Connected Learning In the Networked Age," Ito will discuss how today's young people are growing up in a very different ecology of culture and knowledge than that experienced by earlier generations. The Internet, digital media production tools, portable media, and immersive social gaming environments are part of broad-based shifts in how we express ourselves, produce and access knowledge, and connect with others. Mimo Ito is an expert on the content of educational games and software, their production, distribution, marketing, and how children use them in play.
CFP: Marxism and New Media
New media technologies are leading to the emergence of vibrant public spaces in countries like China and Tunisia, facilitating previously restricted dissent and political deliberation. Similarly, scholars, journalists, and activists are using networking and social media to organize coalitions and mobilize resistance in contexts as diverse as the Wisconsin protests, the Wall Street protests, and the so-called “Arab Spring.” In an ironic self-critique, smartphone applications like the newly released “Phone Game” are even exposing the global working conditions and problematic material production of contemporary consumer technology through their very gameplay.
With the implicit resistance to hegemony and material critique in these examples, Marxism offers both methodological and interpretive tools for interfacing with new media, not least among them a dialectical analysis of the global relations of production. However, writing in the *Nation*, Chris Lehmann has recently argued that the Internet is less the harbinger of post-capitalist cyber-Utopia than a “digital plantation” in which unpaid digital labor and leisure time become transmogrified into ad revenue. In their article, “The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism,” John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney likewise argue that the Internet and related media signify not the suspension of the laws of capitalism, but rather their final perfection.
It seems, then, that a number of unresolved questions linger concerning the ways new media both participate in and creatively resist institutional power. As such, we hope to provide a fresh articulation interrogating the intersection between the theories and practices of new media technologies and Marxist critique. For example: how should we consider the economic, environmental, and human costs incurred in the production of new media technologies? How might resistance and radical change emerge among the ongoing institutionalization, and the incumbent conservatism, of both Marxism and new media studies? How will we navigate through the internal divisions of an academy that has eagerly appropriated new media as a strategy to “reinvigorate” the humanities through renewed funding and (often) corporate partnership?
We invite both papers and creative/artistic work that address these issues and others that deal with the engagement of Marxist thought and the study of media technologies. Papers may intervene at points of seeming incompatibility, address the current place of this convergence in one or many institutional and cultural settings, or perhaps look forward to emerging discourses relating to this intersection.
For further information, clck here.
With the implicit resistance to hegemony and material critique in these examples, Marxism offers both methodological and interpretive tools for interfacing with new media, not least among them a dialectical analysis of the global relations of production. However, writing in the *Nation*, Chris Lehmann has recently argued that the Internet is less the harbinger of post-capitalist cyber-Utopia than a “digital plantation” in which unpaid digital labor and leisure time become transmogrified into ad revenue. In their article, “The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism,” John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney likewise argue that the Internet and related media signify not the suspension of the laws of capitalism, but rather their final perfection.
It seems, then, that a number of unresolved questions linger concerning the ways new media both participate in and creatively resist institutional power. As such, we hope to provide a fresh articulation interrogating the intersection between the theories and practices of new media technologies and Marxist critique. For example: how should we consider the economic, environmental, and human costs incurred in the production of new media technologies? How might resistance and radical change emerge among the ongoing institutionalization, and the incumbent conservatism, of both Marxism and new media studies? How will we navigate through the internal divisions of an academy that has eagerly appropriated new media as a strategy to “reinvigorate” the humanities through renewed funding and (often) corporate partnership?
We invite both papers and creative/artistic work that address these issues and others that deal with the engagement of Marxist thought and the study of media technologies. Papers may intervene at points of seeming incompatibility, address the current place of this convergence in one or many institutional and cultural settings, or perhaps look forward to emerging discourses relating to this intersection.
For further information, clck here.
CFP - TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY
EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY University of California, Los Angeles, USA
16-18 January 2012
http://www.Technology-Conference.com
We are pleased to host the Technology Conference this year at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Los Angeles is a world economic center of business, science and technology as well as entertainment, art, media and culture. With its diverse mix of industry and innovation Los Angeles is the ideal place to discuss Technology and Society.
This year's conference will include presentations from plenary speakers:
Henry Jenkins, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Christiane Paul, The New School, New York, USA
Victoria Vesna, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
This cross-disciplinary conference is attracting scholars from all backgrounds, all over the world. It is a meeting point for technologists with a concern for the social, and social scientists with a concern for the technological. The focus is primarily, but not exclusively, on information and communications technologies.
Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available.
Visit our website for more information about the conference, our submission process and this year's themes, to sign up for our monthly e-newsletter, and to become an active member of our community. It is all available at: http://www.Technology-Conference.com.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 11 October 2011. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission.
For more information, click here.
16-18 January 2012
http://www.Technology-Conference.com
We are pleased to host the Technology Conference this year at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Los Angeles is a world economic center of business, science and technology as well as entertainment, art, media and culture. With its diverse mix of industry and innovation Los Angeles is the ideal place to discuss Technology and Society.
This year's conference will include presentations from plenary speakers:
Henry Jenkins, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Christiane Paul, The New School, New York, USA
Victoria Vesna, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
This cross-disciplinary conference is attracting scholars from all backgrounds, all over the world. It is a meeting point for technologists with a concern for the social, and social scientists with a concern for the technological. The focus is primarily, but not exclusively, on information and communications technologies.
Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available.
Visit our website for more information about the conference, our submission process and this year's themes, to sign up for our monthly e-newsletter, and to become an active member of our community. It is all available at: http://www.Technology-Conference.com.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 11 October 2011. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission.
For more information, click here.
CFP - "Social Networks and Public Opinion"
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 15-16 April, 2012
The Saudi Association for Media and Communication (SAMC) is pleased to announce the 6th Annual forum on Social Networks and Public Opinion to be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 15 & 16, 2012. The forum is an international interdisciplinary conference that encourages academics and professionals working in the fields of mass communication and related areas to participate with research papers.
The introduction of social networks raises critical questions among scholars of mass communication and related disciplines, because social networks are changing the way people participate and communicate in discussing important issues to them and shaping their opinions. This forum is to explore the current status and uses of such phenomena and study and discuss the relationship between social networks and political, social, economic and cultural aspects as well as to learn more about the theoretical and methodological complications that face researchers in studying the role and impact of social networks in shaping public opinions. In addition, the forum will discuss the ethical and legal issues of social networks as well as exploring their expected future roles, functions and impacts.
Papers written in Arabic or English are welcomed and should be sent to info@samc.org.sa .
The deadline for submitting abstracts (including a brief cv with front page of passport) is September 30, 2011 and completed paper will be by February 29, 2012.
The Association will provide tickets and accommodations for participants.
For more infomration, including subthemes, click here.
The Saudi Association for Media and Communication (SAMC) is pleased to announce the 6th Annual forum on Social Networks and Public Opinion to be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 15 & 16, 2012. The forum is an international interdisciplinary conference that encourages academics and professionals working in the fields of mass communication and related areas to participate with research papers.
The introduction of social networks raises critical questions among scholars of mass communication and related disciplines, because social networks are changing the way people participate and communicate in discussing important issues to them and shaping their opinions. This forum is to explore the current status and uses of such phenomena and study and discuss the relationship between social networks and political, social, economic and cultural aspects as well as to learn more about the theoretical and methodological complications that face researchers in studying the role and impact of social networks in shaping public opinions. In addition, the forum will discuss the ethical and legal issues of social networks as well as exploring their expected future roles, functions and impacts.
Papers written in Arabic or English are welcomed and should be sent to info@samc.org.sa .
The deadline for submitting abstracts (including a brief cv with front page of passport) is September 30, 2011 and completed paper will be by February 29, 2012.
The Association will provide tickets and accommodations for participants.
For more infomration, including subthemes, click here.
CFP-Digital Crossroads
Digital Crossroads: Media, Migration and Diaspora in a Transnational Perspective
28-30 June, 2012
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Deadline for abstract submission and panel proposals: January 10, 2012
The rapid development of digital technologies has radically transformed ways of keeping in touch with home cultures and diasporic networks. Moreover, the notion of migration has undergone significant shifts, coming to signify imaginaries on the move which are not necessarily linked to geographical displacement. The aim of this conference is to address the relationship between migration and digital technologies across national contexts and ethnic belonging. Migrancy embeds many of the local and global paradoxes that also pertain to digital media with their compression of space and time.
However, the link between the two fields is still under-theorized and in need of more situated and comparative analysis. Drawing from approaches from the humanities and social sciences (media theory, communication studies, learning sciences, gender studies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, migration and transnational studies, among others), the primary aim of this conference is to explore how the study of digitalization and migration challenges existing notions of diaspora, identity, nation, family, learning, literacy, social networks, youth, body, gender and ethnicity, asking for new approaches and a rethinking of traditional social and cultural categories.
The conference will consider the following questions, among others: How has the development of new digital technologies changed the experience of migration? Conversely, how has the reality of migration impacted on the use, development and distribution of new media technologies? How does the use of media differ among different migrant generations? How does media literacy impact on issues of integration and socialization in a hosting country? What are the differences in media access, diffusion and use among different migrant communities across the world? How are race, gender, age, class, ethnicity and other markers of identity recodified online? How are transnational relationships and resources arrayed in networks? How do ideas and practices move across these networks? How is the notion of home or community, which is no longer locatable with a "here" and "there" reconceptualised through digital diasporas? How do these developments impact on the spaces for learning and education, which are no longer limited to place-based classrooms and curricula? How can learning processes and networks be conceptualised when these networks expand larger geographical distances, and multiple communities are crossed? What resources of identity do migrants draw on and how are these resources hybridized in practice, and related to their learning and socialization processes? In short, how are digital crossroads created, distributed and experienced in the context of migration, diaspora and transnationalism?
For more complete information, click here.
28-30 June, 2012
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Deadline for abstract submission and panel proposals: January 10, 2012
The rapid development of digital technologies has radically transformed ways of keeping in touch with home cultures and diasporic networks. Moreover, the notion of migration has undergone significant shifts, coming to signify imaginaries on the move which are not necessarily linked to geographical displacement. The aim of this conference is to address the relationship between migration and digital technologies across national contexts and ethnic belonging. Migrancy embeds many of the local and global paradoxes that also pertain to digital media with their compression of space and time.
However, the link between the two fields is still under-theorized and in need of more situated and comparative analysis. Drawing from approaches from the humanities and social sciences (media theory, communication studies, learning sciences, gender studies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, migration and transnational studies, among others), the primary aim of this conference is to explore how the study of digitalization and migration challenges existing notions of diaspora, identity, nation, family, learning, literacy, social networks, youth, body, gender and ethnicity, asking for new approaches and a rethinking of traditional social and cultural categories.
The conference will consider the following questions, among others: How has the development of new digital technologies changed the experience of migration? Conversely, how has the reality of migration impacted on the use, development and distribution of new media technologies? How does the use of media differ among different migrant generations? How does media literacy impact on issues of integration and socialization in a hosting country? What are the differences in media access, diffusion and use among different migrant communities across the world? How are race, gender, age, class, ethnicity and other markers of identity recodified online? How are transnational relationships and resources arrayed in networks? How do ideas and practices move across these networks? How is the notion of home or community, which is no longer locatable with a "here" and "there" reconceptualised through digital diasporas? How do these developments impact on the spaces for learning and education, which are no longer limited to place-based classrooms and curricula? How can learning processes and networks be conceptualised when these networks expand larger geographical distances, and multiple communities are crossed? What resources of identity do migrants draw on and how are these resources hybridized in practice, and related to their learning and socialization processes? In short, how are digital crossroads created, distributed and experienced in the context of migration, diaspora and transnationalism?
For more complete information, click here.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Advice on Getting Your Work Published
Publishing one's own work is essential in most academic areas. While some fields continue to put a lot of weight on books, writing journal articles is important in an increasing number of areas. The logistics of journal submission are not obvious. Nonetheless they are yet another aspect of academic professionalization that seems to go unaddressed in many graduate programs.
In this piece from Inside Higher Ed, Eszter Hargittai covers how you go about picking an appropriate journal for your paper and how you prepare it for submission. The assumption is that you have prepared a manuscript that you and your mentors feel is ready for consideration by a journal.
In this piece from Inside Higher Ed, Eszter Hargittai covers how you go about picking an appropriate journal for your paper and how you prepare it for submission. The assumption is that you have prepared a manuscript that you and your mentors feel is ready for consideration by a journal.
Friday, September 23, 2011
CMCL Colloquium Series
The Department of Communication and Culture Colloquium Series continues with a faculty lecture by Professor Greg Waller.
"Tracking the Non-Theatrical: The American Cinema in 1915"
Friday, September 23, 2011
4-5 pm
Swain East, room 105
For the full CMCL Fall 2011 Colloquium Schedule, please click here.
"Tracking the Non-Theatrical: The American Cinema in 1915"
Friday, September 23, 2011
4-5 pm
Swain East, room 105
For the full CMCL Fall 2011 Colloquium Schedule, please click here.
Employment: Post-doctoral Positions
The pages for postdocs have a new look. Check the links list under Employment: Post-doctoral Positions.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Saskia Sassen Named First Visiting Scholar for the "Framing the Global" Project
Saskia Sassen, the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, will be the first Visiting Scholar for the Framing the Global project.
Professor Sassen will present a public lecture on
Monday, September 26, 2011, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
“Beyond national versus global:
Emergent assemblages of territory, authority and rights”
Maurer School of Law, Moot Court Room
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There will also be an opportunity to talk with Saskia Sassen from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 27, 2011. She will be participating in the Global Studies Positioning Series, a luncheon discussion series at the Center for the Study of Global Change, 201 N. Indiana Avenue. This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited and reservations are required. Lunch will be provided. For reservations, contact framing@indiana.edu.
Professor Sassen will present a public lecture on
Monday, September 26, 2011, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
“Beyond national versus global:
Emergent assemblages of territory, authority and rights”
Maurer School of Law, Moot Court Room
_______________________________________________________
There will also be an opportunity to talk with Saskia Sassen from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 27, 2011. She will be participating in the Global Studies Positioning Series, a luncheon discussion series at the Center for the Study of Global Change, 201 N. Indiana Avenue. This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited and reservations are required. Lunch will be provided. For reservations, contact framing@indiana.edu.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Employment Opportunity: University of South Carolina
The Department of Art and the Film and Media Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina, Columbia invite applications for a joint, tenure track appointment, beginning Fall 2012, for an Assistant Professor of Popular/Contemporary Media Studies. A Ph.D. in film and media studies (or equivalent) and experience in university level teaching are required. The successful candidate will be expected to conduct research in his or her primary field, teach undergraduate and graduate students, and be an active participant in the intellectual life of the university and community.
The successful candidate will have a record of research achievement in film and media studies, with particular emphasis on popular and contemporary media. Possible areas of expertise could include a range of approaches to global Hollywood: e.g., popular genres in film and/or television and how they travel; industrial practices of globalized entertainment; transnational circuits of influence to and from US media and other international sites. Ideally, we seek someone who can place contemporary, mainstream English-language media in a global frame.
For the full posting, click here.
The successful candidate will have a record of research achievement in film and media studies, with particular emphasis on popular and contemporary media. Possible areas of expertise could include a range of approaches to global Hollywood: e.g., popular genres in film and/or television and how they travel; industrial practices of globalized entertainment; transnational circuits of influence to and from US media and other international sites. Ideally, we seek someone who can place contemporary, mainstream English-language media in a global frame.
For the full posting, click here.
Employment Opportunity: Michigan State University
The Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University is seeking an innovative, dynamic individual to fill a full-time, tenure stream position at the assistant professor level in the field of games. Whether designed purely to entertain or to also achieve more "serious" purposes, games have the potential to impact players' beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior. The faculty member hired for this position is expected to engage in scholarship aimed at understanding and transforming games in meaningful ways.
Candidates will join an enthusiastic, multidisciplinary faculty and a program in game design and development that was rated #5 in the nation by Princeton Review in 2011. Experience in the field may take the form of scholarly research and/or creative practice. Expertise or experience in other disciplines is also welcome.
For the full posting, click here.
Candidates will join an enthusiastic, multidisciplinary faculty and a program in game design and development that was rated #5 in the nation by Princeton Review in 2011. Experience in the field may take the form of scholarly research and/or creative practice. Expertise or experience in other disciplines is also welcome.
For the full posting, click here.
CMCL PhD Candidate Natasha Ritsma to Give a Photography-related Noon Talk at IU Art Musuem
Surreal Musings
Wednesday, September 21,
12:15–1:00 p.m.
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
Natasha Ritsma, the IU Art Museum’s interdisciplinary coordinator for Mellon programs and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication and Culture and American Studies, will use three new acquisitions to discuss the life and career of the surrealist model/photographer Lee Miller, including her relationships with contemporaries like Man Ray, Ronald Penrose, Jean Cocteau, Max Ernst, and Dorothea Tanning.
Wednesday, September 21,
12:15–1:00 p.m.
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
Natasha Ritsma, the IU Art Museum’s interdisciplinary coordinator for Mellon programs and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication and Culture and American Studies, will use three new acquisitions to discuss the life and career of the surrealist model/photographer Lee Miller, including her relationships with contemporaries like Man Ray, Ronald Penrose, Jean Cocteau, Max Ernst, and Dorothea Tanning.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Dhar India Studies Program presents Veterans and Violence: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing in the Partition of India
The Dhar India Studies Program is pleased to welcome Steven Wilkinson, the Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale University. Dr. Wilkinson will speak on Veterans and Violence: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing in the Partition of India, as part of Themester 2011.
Who: Steven Wilkinson
What: DISP and Themester Lecture, Veterans and Violence: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing in the Partition of India
When: Thursday, September 22 @ 5:30pm
Where: Ballantine Hall, 003
The lecture is free, the campus community and public are most welcome and encouraged to attend.
Who: Steven Wilkinson
What: DISP and Themester Lecture, Veterans and Violence: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing in the Partition of India
When: Thursday, September 22 @ 5:30pm
Where: Ballantine Hall, 003
The lecture is free, the campus community and public are most welcome and encouraged to attend.
Employment Opportunity: Indiana University Press
Music, Film, and Media Studies Editor, Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press seeks an acquisitions editor to continue and expand upon the Press’s highly regarded publishing program in the field of music and to enhance its publishing program in film and media studies. We seek an energetic and creative editor to acquire and sponsor 25-30 high-quality books a year in music (musicology, ethnomusicology, performance practice, and related areas) and film/media studies, consonant with the IU Press list. Job duties include travel to academic conferences as a representative of the Press.
Qualifications: bachelor's degree in music or other humanities discipline, the ability to read and understand music scores, knowledge of at least one foreign language, and at least two years experience in scholarly publishing are required, as well as excellent writing, communication, interpersonal, and computer skills, including ability to use databases and familiarity with notational software such as Finale.
Experience in acquisitions and list building and some relevant graduate study are preferred.
Indiana University Press, located in Bloomington, participates in the culturally rich environment of Indiana University with its world-class School of Music and outstanding academic programs. IU Press, with a professional and support staff of 45, publishes over 140 new books annually—scholarly, trade, text, and reference—as well as 28 journals and maintains a backlist of some 2,000 titles.
Review of applicants will begin immediately and will continue until an appointment has been made. Indiana University Press is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
Indiana University Press seeks an acquisitions editor to continue and expand upon the Press’s highly regarded publishing program in the field of music and to enhance its publishing program in film and media studies. We seek an energetic and creative editor to acquire and sponsor 25-30 high-quality books a year in music (musicology, ethnomusicology, performance practice, and related areas) and film/media studies, consonant with the IU Press list. Job duties include travel to academic conferences as a representative of the Press.
Qualifications: bachelor's degree in music or other humanities discipline, the ability to read and understand music scores, knowledge of at least one foreign language, and at least two years experience in scholarly publishing are required, as well as excellent writing, communication, interpersonal, and computer skills, including ability to use databases and familiarity with notational software such as Finale.
Experience in acquisitions and list building and some relevant graduate study are preferred.
Indiana University Press, located in Bloomington, participates in the culturally rich environment of Indiana University with its world-class School of Music and outstanding academic programs. IU Press, with a professional and support staff of 45, publishes over 140 new books annually—scholarly, trade, text, and reference—as well as 28 journals and maintains a backlist of some 2,000 titles.
Review of applicants will begin immediately and will continue until an appointment has been made. Indiana University Press is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
Employment Opportunity: Northwestern University
The Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University seeks to hire for two tenure-track appointments in media, technology, and society; the appointments will begin September 1, 2012. Both appointments will be at the level of assistant professor. The successful candidates will be expected to publish innovative research, teach undergraduate and graduate courses, and perform professional service commensurate with rank. Potential to attract external funding is expected.
Candidates should have an interest in health communication and/or in media industries and institutions. Areas of expertise include but are not limited to: health care organizations and networks; health applications of communication technology; digital media uses; traditional and new media organizations; media arts and culture; entertainment and gaming; media and democracy; media and policy formation, and political communication.
For the full posting, click here.
Candidates should have an interest in health communication and/or in media industries and institutions. Areas of expertise include but are not limited to: health care organizations and networks; health applications of communication technology; digital media uses; traditional and new media organizations; media arts and culture; entertainment and gaming; media and democracy; media and policy formation, and political communication.
For the full posting, click here.
Employment Opportunity: Clemson University
The Department of Communication Studies at Clemson University invites applications for up to two tenure-track positions at the Assistant/Associate Professor level to begin August 15, 2012.
Applicants might have research agendas in one or more of the following areas: (a) organizational and/or strategic communication; (b) health communication; (c) communication and technology; (d) sports communication. Methodological specialization is open; however, candidates must be able to teach undergraduate courses in communication theory and research methods. Teaching at the graduate level is possible.
For the full posting, click here.
Applicants might have research agendas in one or more of the following areas: (a) organizational and/or strategic communication; (b) health communication; (c) communication and technology; (d) sports communication. Methodological specialization is open; however, candidates must be able to teach undergraduate courses in communication theory and research methods. Teaching at the graduate level is possible.
For the full posting, click here.
Employment Opportunity: University of South Florida
The Department of Communication at the University of South Florida invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 2012. Applicants must have earned a doctorate in Communication (or related discipline) by August 2011, and be willing to make Communication their academic home. We seek a scholar who has a record of published scholarship and successful teaching experience commensurate with the length of time since earning the Ph.D. and appropriate for appointment in a doctoral degree granting department at a Research I university.
Applicants should have a research and teaching profile that fits within and contributes to our department’s qualitative, critical, and interpretive orientation, and our integration of social science with humanistic, narrative, and performative approaches to inquiry. Although substantive areas are open, the candidate’s interests should connect with one or more of our department’s emphases in interpersonal, family, health, organizational, media, global, and applied communication. We welcome applicants whose research engages race, gender, or class within these areas of study.
For full posting, click here.
Applicants should have a research and teaching profile that fits within and contributes to our department’s qualitative, critical, and interpretive orientation, and our integration of social science with humanistic, narrative, and performative approaches to inquiry. Although substantive areas are open, the candidate’s interests should connect with one or more of our department’s emphases in interpersonal, family, health, organizational, media, global, and applied communication. We welcome applicants whose research engages race, gender, or class within these areas of study.
For full posting, click here.
T600 Media Arts & Sciences Speaker Series
"Journalism and Telecommunications at IU"
12:30-1:45pm
Room RTV 180
Please join us for coffee, tea and homemade cookies this Friday as current and former faculty of IU's School of Journalism (currently celebrating its centennial) and the Department of Telecommunications get together to present their joint and separate histories, research programs, and visions for the future.
Former Dean Trevor Brown and Professor Owen Johnson will represent Journalism, whereas Professor & Facilities Manager Ron Osgood and Professor Herb Terry will reflect on Telecommunications' past.
Professors Walt Gantz and David Weaver will act as special co-conveners of this installment in the T600 Speaker Series.
Given the ongoing debates on and around campus about the future of the various highly successful media, telecommunications, and journalism programs at Indiana University, we look forward to this opportunity to look back and discuss what makes media research and production such an exciting part of IU's core identity.
For more information on T60), click here.
For more information on the Centennial Celebration, click here.
12:30-1:45pm
Room RTV 180
Please join us for coffee, tea and homemade cookies this Friday as current and former faculty of IU's School of Journalism (currently celebrating its centennial) and the Department of Telecommunications get together to present their joint and separate histories, research programs, and visions for the future.
Former Dean Trevor Brown and Professor Owen Johnson will represent Journalism, whereas Professor & Facilities Manager Ron Osgood and Professor Herb Terry will reflect on Telecommunications' past.
Professors Walt Gantz and David Weaver will act as special co-conveners of this installment in the T600 Speaker Series.
Given the ongoing debates on and around campus about the future of the various highly successful media, telecommunications, and journalism programs at Indiana University, we look forward to this opportunity to look back and discuss what makes media research and production such an exciting part of IU's core identity.
For more information on T60), click here.
For more information on the Centennial Celebration, click here.
Announcing: Wells Library Boardgame Collection
A small set of high-quality games is now available for borrowing by the University community through the Wells Library Media Center (downstairs, outside the cafe). The initial set of games includes items useful for teaching collaboration, resource management, strategy, networks, and economic development. The games have been selected for quality of design, intellectual merit, and engagement.
Please make others aware of the existence of the collection and encourage them to use it! Also, if you have good games in usable condition that you'd like to donate, please contact me.
Here is a list of the available games, with notes on possible uses, and a complexity score ranging from 1 (high schoolers can easily play) to 10 (don't understand it myself).
Labyrinth: Global War on Terror (9): Two-player simulation of the 2001-2010 conflict between the US and Al-Qaeda. Current events, diplomacy, ideological conflict, defense policy, international relations, cultural change.
Settlers of Catan (5): Place settlements, build roads, harvest resources. Trade, bargaining, area control, resource management, networks.
Pandemic (4): Cooperative public health game. Work together to defeat a global epidemic. Teamwork, communication, role optimization, collective resource management.
Commands and Colors: Ancients (7): Two-player battle game, Rome v. Carthage. Ancient history, strategy, combined arms tactics, area control, history of games (this is basically a modern version of the Prussian Army's Kriegspiel from 1816).
Stone Age (4): Village development game. Agriculture, technology, resource management, development.
Ticket to Ride (2): Simple railroad network game. Basic networks.
Carcassonne (2): Tile-laying game. Build and claim cities, roads, farms. Area management, synergies.
To learn more about these and other games, visit BoardGameGeek.com and search there for extensive reviews, images, and discussions.
Please make others aware of the existence of the collection and encourage them to use it! Also, if you have good games in usable condition that you'd like to donate, please contact me.
Here is a list of the available games, with notes on possible uses, and a complexity score ranging from 1 (high schoolers can easily play) to 10 (don't understand it myself).
Labyrinth: Global War on Terror (9): Two-player simulation of the 2001-2010 conflict between the US and Al-Qaeda. Current events, diplomacy, ideological conflict, defense policy, international relations, cultural change.
Settlers of Catan (5): Place settlements, build roads, harvest resources. Trade, bargaining, area control, resource management, networks.
Pandemic (4): Cooperative public health game. Work together to defeat a global epidemic. Teamwork, communication, role optimization, collective resource management.
Commands and Colors: Ancients (7): Two-player battle game, Rome v. Carthage. Ancient history, strategy, combined arms tactics, area control, history of games (this is basically a modern version of the Prussian Army's Kriegspiel from 1816).
Stone Age (4): Village development game. Agriculture, technology, resource management, development.
Ticket to Ride (2): Simple railroad network game. Basic networks.
Carcassonne (2): Tile-laying game. Build and claim cities, roads, farms. Area management, synergies.
To learn more about these and other games, visit BoardGameGeek.com and search there for extensive reviews, images, and discussions.
"Copyright, Communication, and IP Culture: Towards a Relational Theory of Copyright Law"
WHEN: Sept. 22, 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Maurer School of Law, 211 S. Indiana Ave., room 213, Bloomington
WHAT: Lecture by Carys Craig, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-4044 or kturchi@indiana.edu
WHERE: Maurer School of Law, 211 S. Indiana Ave., room 213, Bloomington
WHAT: Lecture by Carys Craig, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-4044 or kturchi@indiana.edu
CMCL Colloquium Series -Tracking the Non-Theatrical: The American Cinema in 1915
The Department of Communication and Culture is pleased to present a lecture by:
Professor Greg Waller
Friday, September 23
4-5 pm
Swain East, room 105
Please note that this location has changed. Please contact Jon Simons (simonsj@indiana.edu) with questions
For a complete list of Colloquiua hosted by CMCL for fall 2011, click here.
Professor Greg Waller
Friday, September 23
4-5 pm
Swain East, room 105
Please note that this location has changed. Please contact Jon Simons (simonsj@indiana.edu) with questions
For a complete list of Colloquiua hosted by CMCL for fall 2011, click here.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
CFP: Collins Living-Learning Center Call for Course Proposals
Is there a course you've always wanted to teach, but never had the opportunity?
Have you designed a multidisciplinary course that doesn't quite fit into your department's curriculum?
Collins Living‐Learning Center invites faculty members and advanced graduate students with teaching experience to submit course proposals each semester for the following year. Collins courses carry university credit and are open to all IU undergraduates.
PROPOSAL DEADLINE FOR CLASSES TO BE TAUGHT IN FALL
2012: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15
The 3‐credit Collins seminars are limited to a maximum of 20 students (15 in the case of fine arts classes) and meet at the Collins Living‐Learning Center, which is fully‐equipped for multi‐media teaching.
Graduate student instructors receive $6728 for a 3‐credit course. In addition, they are given $400 to spend on materials or activities, a parking pass, and meal points for dining with students.
Collins is also accepting applications from faculty to teach overload courses (with appropriate compensation).
We will hold an open house where prospective instructors can meet BOEP members and the Collins director in
Edmondson Hall Formal Lounge on Friday, September 23, at 6pm (snacks included).
GO TO www.indiana.edu/~llc/ for details. (Click “Prospective Instructors.”)
Questions? E‐mail Carl Ipsen: cipsen@indiana.edu
Have you designed a multidisciplinary course that doesn't quite fit into your department's curriculum?
Collins Living‐Learning Center invites faculty members and advanced graduate students with teaching experience to submit course proposals each semester for the following year. Collins courses carry university credit and are open to all IU undergraduates.
PROPOSAL DEADLINE FOR CLASSES TO BE TAUGHT IN FALL
2012: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15
The 3‐credit Collins seminars are limited to a maximum of 20 students (15 in the case of fine arts classes) and meet at the Collins Living‐Learning Center, which is fully‐equipped for multi‐media teaching.
Graduate student instructors receive $6728 for a 3‐credit course. In addition, they are given $400 to spend on materials or activities, a parking pass, and meal points for dining with students.
Collins is also accepting applications from faculty to teach overload courses (with appropriate compensation).
We will hold an open house where prospective instructors can meet BOEP members and the Collins director in
Edmondson Hall Formal Lounge on Friday, September 23, at 6pm (snacks included).
GO TO www.indiana.edu/~llc/ for details. (Click “Prospective Instructors.”)
Questions? E‐mail Carl Ipsen: cipsen@indiana.edu
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
CFP: Indecency
Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's & Gender History Presents:
INDECENCY
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign March 1-3, 2012
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2011
The Executive Committee of the Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department's Women's History month celebration, is scheduled for March 1-3, 2012.
To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline on any topic in the field of women's and gender history. Papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year's Symposium.
The history of gender and sexuality is in many ways the history of indecency—of bodies, acts, and attachments that were deemed indecent by culture or legal code, and of the various ways subjects questioned, resisted, or embraced that label. Indeed, indecency has long functioned as a pivot upon which concepts and experiences of inclusion and exclusion depend, and thus it offers us a valuable way of exploring both dominant paradigms and their undoing.
The theme is meant to be open-ended—provocative rather than prescriptive—and papers need not take up the question of indecency in any direct or obvious way. In gathering together what we hope will be a geographically, temporally, and disciplinarily diverse body of papers, the conference will create opportunities for dialogue and discussion across these different fields. To that end, successful proposals might focus on topics such as: the construction of indecency; immigration, hygiene, and public health; prostitution and “indecent” labor; religion and decency; obscenity, censorship, and the law; disgust and desire; material cultures of indecency; sensory perception and offense; propriety and literary form; menstruation; family structures; the grotesque in travel accounts; pornography; gossip as a historical force or source; the history of scandal; the moral economy of decency; responses to matter out of place; and alternative archives for exploring indecency. As always, we welcome proposals that surprise us by taking the theme in unexpected (or perhaps even indecent) directions.
For the Thirteenth Annual Symposium, we are delighted to announce a keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in her work:
• Judith Surkis, Scholar with the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Author of Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920 (Cornell University Press, 2006), Surkis is currently at work on a project titled Scandalous Subjects:
Intimacy and Indecency in France and French Algeria, 1830-1930.
For more submission information, click here.
INDECENCY
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign March 1-3, 2012
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2011
The Executive Committee of the Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department's Women's History month celebration, is scheduled for March 1-3, 2012.
To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline on any topic in the field of women's and gender history. Papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year's Symposium.
The history of gender and sexuality is in many ways the history of indecency—of bodies, acts, and attachments that were deemed indecent by culture or legal code, and of the various ways subjects questioned, resisted, or embraced that label. Indeed, indecency has long functioned as a pivot upon which concepts and experiences of inclusion and exclusion depend, and thus it offers us a valuable way of exploring both dominant paradigms and their undoing.
The theme is meant to be open-ended—provocative rather than prescriptive—and papers need not take up the question of indecency in any direct or obvious way. In gathering together what we hope will be a geographically, temporally, and disciplinarily diverse body of papers, the conference will create opportunities for dialogue and discussion across these different fields. To that end, successful proposals might focus on topics such as: the construction of indecency; immigration, hygiene, and public health; prostitution and “indecent” labor; religion and decency; obscenity, censorship, and the law; disgust and desire; material cultures of indecency; sensory perception and offense; propriety and literary form; menstruation; family structures; the grotesque in travel accounts; pornography; gossip as a historical force or source; the history of scandal; the moral economy of decency; responses to matter out of place; and alternative archives for exploring indecency. As always, we welcome proposals that surprise us by taking the theme in unexpected (or perhaps even indecent) directions.
For the Thirteenth Annual Symposium, we are delighted to announce a keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in her work:
• Judith Surkis, Scholar with the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Author of Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920 (Cornell University Press, 2006), Surkis is currently at work on a project titled Scandalous Subjects:
Intimacy and Indecency in France and French Algeria, 1830-1930.
For more submission information, click here.
African American Arts Institute: A Potpourri of the Arts Concert
Featuring exciting performances from the African American Dance Company, the African American Choral Ensemble and the IU Soul Revue.
When: Saturday, November 5, 2011, 8:00 p.m.
Where: Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E Kirkwood Ave Bloomington, IN 47408
Price: General admission for adults is $20. Children and students (limit 2 per ID) are $10.
Since 1993 the African American Arts Institute has given its audiences the opportunity to see and hear the African American Choral Ensemble, African American Dance Company and the IU Soul Revue all performing on the same program. We continue this tradition in 2011 with our annual Potpourri of the Arts Concert. Come join us for what promises to be another exciting show of music and dance, ending with the three groups combined for a rousing finale.
The African American Arts Institute is committed to promoting and preserving African American culture through performance, education, creative activity, research, and outreach. For more information and a calendar of AAAI events, please visit the African American Arts Institute website at: www.indiana.edu/~aaai or call 812-855-5427.
The Institute’s current Executive Director is Dr. Charles E. Sykes and is a unit of the Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs.
When: Saturday, November 5, 2011, 8:00 p.m.
Where: Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E Kirkwood Ave Bloomington, IN 47408
Price: General admission for adults is $20. Children and students (limit 2 per ID) are $10.
Since 1993 the African American Arts Institute has given its audiences the opportunity to see and hear the African American Choral Ensemble, African American Dance Company and the IU Soul Revue all performing on the same program. We continue this tradition in 2011 with our annual Potpourri of the Arts Concert. Come join us for what promises to be another exciting show of music and dance, ending with the three groups combined for a rousing finale.
The African American Arts Institute is committed to promoting and preserving African American culture through performance, education, creative activity, research, and outreach. For more information and a calendar of AAAI events, please visit the African American Arts Institute website at: www.indiana.edu/~aaai or call 812-855-5427.
The Institute’s current Executive Director is Dr. Charles E. Sykes and is a unit of the Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs.
CFP: Socially Mediated Publicness
Special Theme Issue of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
“Socially-Mediated Publicness”
Guest Editors:
-Nancy Baym (University of Kansas)
-Danah boyd (Microsoft Research)
Editor: Zizi Papacharissi
Social media call into question conventional understandings of what it means to “be public,” what it means to be “in a public,” and even the meaning of “public” itself. New types of publics are emerging because of the technological affordances of social media and individuals may be more visible than ever before, whether they seek this or not. This special issue will explore these issues.
We seek scholarship from an array of theoretical and methodological perspectives that critically examines how public life is reconfigured because of or in relation to social media. We welcome articles from diverse fields, including media studies, communication, anthropology, sociology, political theory, critical theory, etc.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
•Processes and practices of building and living in online publics
•How new technologies of publicness affect celebrities, artists, musicians, and other creators
•How mediated publics challenge social, political, and economic assumptions
•The meaning of concepts such as “audience” and “listening” in mediated public spaces
•How counterpublics and intimate publics are reshaped by technology
•The relationships between being public and being part of a public
•Degrees, boundaries, and scales of technologically-mediated publicness
•How new types of publicness reconfigure identity and race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and/or nationality
In order to be more public, this special issue of JOBEM will be published as an open-access issue. All articles will be available online at the point of publication. The anticipated publication date for this issue is September 2012.
Manuscripts should conform to the guidelines of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (www.beaweb.org/jobem/info.html).
By December 12, 2011, you should send a title, abstract, and list of 5 potential reviewers to jobem.publicness@gmail.com to help us streamline the peer review process.
Articles should be submitted no later than January 6, 2012 at:http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hbem (select “Special Issue: Socially Mediated Publicness” as a manuscript type).
For more information, click here.
“Socially-Mediated Publicness”
Guest Editors:
-Nancy Baym (University of Kansas)
-Danah boyd (Microsoft Research)
Editor: Zizi Papacharissi
Social media call into question conventional understandings of what it means to “be public,” what it means to be “in a public,” and even the meaning of “public” itself. New types of publics are emerging because of the technological affordances of social media and individuals may be more visible than ever before, whether they seek this or not. This special issue will explore these issues.
We seek scholarship from an array of theoretical and methodological perspectives that critically examines how public life is reconfigured because of or in relation to social media. We welcome articles from diverse fields, including media studies, communication, anthropology, sociology, political theory, critical theory, etc.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
•Processes and practices of building and living in online publics
•How new technologies of publicness affect celebrities, artists, musicians, and other creators
•How mediated publics challenge social, political, and economic assumptions
•The meaning of concepts such as “audience” and “listening” in mediated public spaces
•How counterpublics and intimate publics are reshaped by technology
•The relationships between being public and being part of a public
•Degrees, boundaries, and scales of technologically-mediated publicness
•How new types of publicness reconfigure identity and race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and/or nationality
In order to be more public, this special issue of JOBEM will be published as an open-access issue. All articles will be available online at the point of publication. The anticipated publication date for this issue is September 2012.
Manuscripts should conform to the guidelines of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (www.beaweb.org/jobem/info.html).
By December 12, 2011, you should send a title, abstract, and list of 5 potential reviewers to jobem.publicness@gmail.com to help us streamline the peer review process.
Articles should be submitted no later than January 6, 2012 at:http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hbem (select “Special Issue: Socially Mediated Publicness” as a manuscript type).
For more information, click here.
Employment Opportunity: University of Colorado-Boulder
Assistant Professor of Communication and Community Engagement at University of Colorado - Boulder The Communication Department at the University of Colorado - Boulder invites applicants for a tenure track position as an Assistant Professor whose research focuses on community engagement. An excellent record of teaching and research is required. The Ph.D. is required at the time of appointment. Appointment will begin Fall 2012.
The Department seeks a teacher/scholar whose areas of specialization complement and contribute to its existing strengths in Discourse and Society, Organizational Communication, and Rhetoric. The Department's research agenda focuses on communication-based problems arising out of recent social and technological changes. This agenda includes problems associated with processes of interaction, participation, collaboration, deliberation, and decision-making. We are especially interested in candidates whose research focuses on such areas as civic engagement, participation in the community, or social media and community action.
For more information, click here.
The Department seeks a teacher/scholar whose areas of specialization complement and contribute to its existing strengths in Discourse and Society, Organizational Communication, and Rhetoric. The Department's research agenda focuses on communication-based problems arising out of recent social and technological changes. This agenda includes problems associated with processes of interaction, participation, collaboration, deliberation, and decision-making. We are especially interested in candidates whose research focuses on such areas as civic engagement, participation in the community, or social media and community action.
For more information, click here.
Employment Opportunity: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION, at the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, seeks two full-time faculty members at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor. Candidates for appointment should have or be near to completing the Ph.D. by the target start date of August 16, 2012. Salary level is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.
We seek one outstanding candidate who specializes in any area of media effects; this may include mediated communication processes and effects; audience formation and behavior; health-related media content; or the role of media in political systems.
We also seek an outstanding candidate with a special interest in new communication technologies, including the role of technology in communication among individuals, groups, organizations, or cultures. Possible research topics include social media, workplace communication, technology diffusion and policy development, and information management.
For more information, click here.
We seek one outstanding candidate who specializes in any area of media effects; this may include mediated communication processes and effects; audience formation and behavior; health-related media content; or the role of media in political systems.
We also seek an outstanding candidate with a special interest in new communication technologies, including the role of technology in communication among individuals, groups, organizations, or cultures. Possible research topics include social media, workplace communication, technology diffusion and policy development, and information management.
For more information, click here.
Friday, September 9, 2011
CFP: Global Village Living-Learning Center Call for Course Proposals
GLOBAL VILLAGE LIVING-LEARNING CENTER: A MULTILINGUAL, MULTINATIONAL, MULTICULTURAL, AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE RESIDENCE AT IU
A Call for Course Proposals for Fall 2012
Indiana University’s Global Village Living-Learning Center is seeking faculty and advanced graduate students to submit proposals for courses to be taught FALL 2012. Proposed courses must consider contemporary global topics or issues using a multidisciplinary approach. Recent Global Village courses include:
Global Celebrations
Diseases that Changed the World: How Epidemics Impact Society
Guitar Culture Around the World
International Drug Control Policy
Human Rights, Truths, and Justice
Manifestos: Persuading Unbelievers and Inciting Revolutions
Protest, Violence, and Revolution in Afghanistan and Central Asia
Global Media, Consumerism, and Commercial Nation Making
All seminars earn students 3 credits toward graduation, carry distribution credit (CASE A&H or CASE S&H), are limited to a maximum of 20 students, and are open to all IU undergraduates. Classes meet in the classrooms of the Global Village in Foster-Martin, which are equipped with a television with VHS and DVD, a computer, video projector, a standard overhead projector, multiple chalkboards and wireless access. The Global Village offers full administrative support as well. Instructors are compensated on a per course basis; instructor perks include fee remission, health insurance, a parking pass and meal points for dining with students.
Teach a Course of Your Own Design
When submitting a proposal, please include the following:
a completed Global Village Cover Sheet (pages 3 and 4 of this document)
a current curriculum vitae
a detailed course syllabus including:
a course description
proposed methods of assessment
the learning objectives of the course (see FAQs)
potential reading/viewing list
types of assignments to be completed
an indication of A&H or S&H
Note: Please have your CV proofed by your graduate advisor or the Career Development Center and have your syllabus proofed by your graduate advisor or Campus Instructional Consulting. Make sure that your course addresses contemporary global topics and uses a multi-disciplinary approach.
Materials can be emailed as attachments to Assistant Director Lauren Caldarera at lcaldare@indiana.edu. If you have any questions about the Global Village or our teaching opportunities, please feel free to contact us at 812-855-4552. The deadline for submission for courses to be taught FALL 2012 is Monday, October 3, 2011.
What is the Global Village?
Indiana University’s Global Village Living-Learning Center is an undergraduate residence hall committed to preparing students with a broad range of international interests for life in the globalized world of the 21st century. Open to all IU students—freshmen through seniors—the Global Village strives to expand student knowledge of foreign languages and cultures and world affairs, prepare students for study and travel overseas, and assist students in accessing IU’s and Bloomington’s vast international resources. With the guidance of an internationally experienced staff and the support of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Global Village helps prepare IU students to become tomorrow’s global leaders.
Learn more at www.indiana.edu/~college/global/
Frequently Asked Questions
How many pages should the syllabus be?
It should be 5–15 pages and include detailed information about the assignments for individual class periods, readings (include number of pages!), grading and assessment, and classroom policies. Sample syllabi from previously taught GV courses are available for viewing. Contact Lauren Caldarera (lcaldare@indiana.edu) for more information.
What are learning objectives?
Learning objectives are what students should be able to do or do better by the end of the course. Rather than listing the topics that will be covered, the instructor states: "Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to ... [often followed by a bulleted list of the skill-specific objectives]". Please make sure to use this exact formulation. Ideally, these are listed on the front page after the course description. Examples might be "...discuss the interrelation of identity and the many aspects of human culture", "compare and contrast major historical and intellectual periods of Western culture, especially how they define and approach the concept of Evil".
What are A&H and S&H?
A&H (Arts & Humanities) and S&H (Social & Historical Studies are General Education Requirements that each undergraduate must complete in order to receive a Bachelor degree from Indiana University. Courses can only carry one A&H, S&H designation. Specific information about each of these requirements can be found in the College of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Bulletin (http://www.indiana.edu/~bulletin/iub/) and on the General Education website (http://gened.iub.edu).
How global is “global”?
The more world areas covered in the syllabus the better. A topic covering only one country is not as competitive as a multi-country region or a survey of countries from across the globe.
Can I teach outside of my discipline?
Yes, but make sure your curriculum vitae and the “Subject Area Expertise” section of the application cover sheet clearly and convincingly demonstrate your expertise in the area you want to teach.
Who is my audience?
The majority of students enrolled in the courses are freshman and sophomores. Courses should assume no previous background in the subject area and should be at the 200 level.
What information needs to be included in my proposal?
Your proposal must include: a) a Global Village Cover Sheet, b) a current curriculum vitae, c) a course proposal abstract (150 words or less), and d) a detailed course syllabus. All material must be e-mailed to Assistant Director Lauren Caldarera at lcaldare@indiana.edu by Monday, October 3, 2011. If you have questions about aspects of your submission, please contact us.
Where can I find information on syllabus development?
The Teaching Handbook (http://teaching.iub.edu) published by the IU Office of Academic Affairs and the Dean of Faculties has resources related to developing a syllabus. In addition, the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (http://www.indiana.edu/~vpue/faculty) offers teaching, assessment, and evaluation consultation.
Where can I find information on creating a curriculum vitae (CV)?
The IU Career Development Center, located on campus at 625 N. Jordan, has a wealth of information on developing comprehensive CVs. The Career Development Center’s website (http://www.indiana.edu/~career/) has resources online for creating CVs. Faculty colleagues in your department can provide helpful field-specific comments.
Who should I contact for more information?
Please contact Assistant Director Lauren Caldarera at 812-855-4264 or lcaldare@indiana.edu.
The application form has been emailed to you, if you're interested.
A Call for Course Proposals for Fall 2012
Indiana University’s Global Village Living-Learning Center is seeking faculty and advanced graduate students to submit proposals for courses to be taught FALL 2012. Proposed courses must consider contemporary global topics or issues using a multidisciplinary approach. Recent Global Village courses include:
Global Celebrations
Diseases that Changed the World: How Epidemics Impact Society
Guitar Culture Around the World
International Drug Control Policy
Human Rights, Truths, and Justice
Manifestos: Persuading Unbelievers and Inciting Revolutions
Protest, Violence, and Revolution in Afghanistan and Central Asia
Global Media, Consumerism, and Commercial Nation Making
All seminars earn students 3 credits toward graduation, carry distribution credit (CASE A&H or CASE S&H), are limited to a maximum of 20 students, and are open to all IU undergraduates. Classes meet in the classrooms of the Global Village in Foster-Martin, which are equipped with a television with VHS and DVD, a computer, video projector, a standard overhead projector, multiple chalkboards and wireless access. The Global Village offers full administrative support as well. Instructors are compensated on a per course basis; instructor perks include fee remission, health insurance, a parking pass and meal points for dining with students.
Teach a Course of Your Own Design
When submitting a proposal, please include the following:
a completed Global Village Cover Sheet (pages 3 and 4 of this document)
a current curriculum vitae
a detailed course syllabus including:
a course description
proposed methods of assessment
the learning objectives of the course (see FAQs)
potential reading/viewing list
types of assignments to be completed
an indication of A&H or S&H
Note: Please have your CV proofed by your graduate advisor or the Career Development Center and have your syllabus proofed by your graduate advisor or Campus Instructional Consulting. Make sure that your course addresses contemporary global topics and uses a multi-disciplinary approach.
Materials can be emailed as attachments to Assistant Director Lauren Caldarera at lcaldare@indiana.edu. If you have any questions about the Global Village or our teaching opportunities, please feel free to contact us at 812-855-4552. The deadline for submission for courses to be taught FALL 2012 is Monday, October 3, 2011.
What is the Global Village?
Indiana University’s Global Village Living-Learning Center is an undergraduate residence hall committed to preparing students with a broad range of international interests for life in the globalized world of the 21st century. Open to all IU students—freshmen through seniors—the Global Village strives to expand student knowledge of foreign languages and cultures and world affairs, prepare students for study and travel overseas, and assist students in accessing IU’s and Bloomington’s vast international resources. With the guidance of an internationally experienced staff and the support of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Global Village helps prepare IU students to become tomorrow’s global leaders.
Learn more at www.indiana.edu/~college/global/
Frequently Asked Questions
How many pages should the syllabus be?
It should be 5–15 pages and include detailed information about the assignments for individual class periods, readings (include number of pages!), grading and assessment, and classroom policies. Sample syllabi from previously taught GV courses are available for viewing. Contact Lauren Caldarera (lcaldare@indiana.edu) for more information.
What are learning objectives?
Learning objectives are what students should be able to do or do better by the end of the course. Rather than listing the topics that will be covered, the instructor states: "Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to ... [often followed by a bulleted list of the skill-specific objectives]". Please make sure to use this exact formulation. Ideally, these are listed on the front page after the course description. Examples might be "...discuss the interrelation of identity and the many aspects of human culture", "compare and contrast major historical and intellectual periods of Western culture, especially how they define and approach the concept of Evil".
What are A&H and S&H?
A&H (Arts & Humanities) and S&H (Social & Historical Studies are General Education Requirements that each undergraduate must complete in order to receive a Bachelor degree from Indiana University. Courses can only carry one A&H, S&H designation. Specific information about each of these requirements can be found in the College of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Bulletin (http://www.indiana.edu/~bulletin/iub/) and on the General Education website (http://gened.iub.edu).
How global is “global”?
The more world areas covered in the syllabus the better. A topic covering only one country is not as competitive as a multi-country region or a survey of countries from across the globe.
Can I teach outside of my discipline?
Yes, but make sure your curriculum vitae and the “Subject Area Expertise” section of the application cover sheet clearly and convincingly demonstrate your expertise in the area you want to teach.
Who is my audience?
The majority of students enrolled in the courses are freshman and sophomores. Courses should assume no previous background in the subject area and should be at the 200 level.
What information needs to be included in my proposal?
Your proposal must include: a) a Global Village Cover Sheet, b) a current curriculum vitae, c) a course proposal abstract (150 words or less), and d) a detailed course syllabus. All material must be e-mailed to Assistant Director Lauren Caldarera at lcaldare@indiana.edu by Monday, October 3, 2011. If you have questions about aspects of your submission, please contact us.
Where can I find information on syllabus development?
The Teaching Handbook (http://teaching.iub.edu) published by the IU Office of Academic Affairs and the Dean of Faculties has resources related to developing a syllabus. In addition, the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (http://www.indiana.edu/~vpue/faculty) offers teaching, assessment, and evaluation consultation.
Where can I find information on creating a curriculum vitae (CV)?
The IU Career Development Center, located on campus at 625 N. Jordan, has a wealth of information on developing comprehensive CVs. The Career Development Center’s website (http://www.indiana.edu/~career/) has resources online for creating CVs. Faculty colleagues in your department can provide helpful field-specific comments.
Who should I contact for more information?
Please contact Assistant Director Lauren Caldarera at 812-855-4264 or lcaldare@indiana.edu.
The application form has been emailed to you, if you're interested.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
CITL Workshops
Statements of Teaching Philosophy: Critical Reflection About Teaching Practice
September 9
2:30pm - 4pm
Ballantine Hall
In this workshop for graduate students, Katie Kearns and Tyler Christensen share strategies to reflect on teaching as well as information about the qualities of effective statements of teaching philosophy. Participants read and analyze several statements and receive reflection guides for getting started. No registration necessary.
Teaching Portfolios: Documenting and Reflecting on Teaching Practice
September 16
2:30pm - 4:30pm
Ballantine Hall 340
This workshop for graduate students is a follow-up to the “Statements of Teaching Philosophy: Critical Reflection About Teaching Practice.” Katie Kearns and Tyler Christensen share strategies to reflect on teaching through a teaching portfolio and discuss how to document, organize, and present evidence of teaching effectiveness. Participants have an opportunity to view sample teaching portfolios during the workshop. No registration necessary.
September 9
2:30pm - 4pm
Ballantine Hall
In this workshop for graduate students, Katie Kearns and Tyler Christensen share strategies to reflect on teaching as well as information about the qualities of effective statements of teaching philosophy. Participants read and analyze several statements and receive reflection guides for getting started. No registration necessary.
Teaching Portfolios: Documenting and Reflecting on Teaching Practice
September 16
2:30pm - 4:30pm
Ballantine Hall 340
This workshop for graduate students is a follow-up to the “Statements of Teaching Philosophy: Critical Reflection About Teaching Practice.” Katie Kearns and Tyler Christensen share strategies to reflect on teaching through a teaching portfolio and discuss how to document, organize, and present evidence of teaching effectiveness. Participants have an opportunity to view sample teaching portfolios during the workshop. No registration necessary.
Employment Opportunity: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Department of Communication Studies and the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies are seeking a tenure-track assistant professor, beginning August 1, 2012. The position is a joint appointment in Communication Studies (60%) and Women’s and Gender Studies (40%), with the tenure home residing in Communication Studies. We are seeking a scholar specializing in critical approaches to rhetoric, civic discourse, identity, and difference within public culture. In Communication Studies, instructional responsibilities will include courses in gender communication, cultural criticism, methods in rhetorical history, and courses in the general education program. The successful applicant will be asked to strengthen the department’s interdisciplinary ties, especially with feminist scholars in allied disciplines. In Women’s and Gender Studies, responsibilities include appointment as a Core Faculty member and teaching and supervising the introductory course. Applicants must be able to conduct an active program of research, teach undergraduate and graduate courses, advise graduate students, and provide professional service.
For more information, click here.
For more information, click here.
Employment Opportunity: University of California-Santa Barbara
The Department of Communication invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the area of race, ethnicity, and communication. The search is open rank, with an anticipated effective date of July 1, 2012. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in communication or a related field, a strong social science background, and demonstrated excellence in publishing innovative research, teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and professional activities in the area of race, ethnicity, and communication. Active service in the department and on campus is expected.
For more information, click here.
For more information, click here.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Dissertation Submission and Graduation Deadlines
Effective the Fall 2011 semester, the structure of the University Graduate School’s dissertation submission deadlines will be changing. The initial submission of the electronic dissertation now will be due by the 15th of the month from students wishing to graduate in that month.
As before, submissions will undergo format review within 3-5 business days of receipt. Students will receive an email notifying them of any required formatting corrections, and will be given a period of time to complete these requested changes, as well as to submit required paperwork and ensure Rs are removed from their transcripts. Typically, this second deadline will fall around the 27th of the month. Students should be aware that the dissertation submission is not considered final until they receive an email from the doctoral recorder stating that the dissertation has been accepted by the University Graduate School.
As before, submissions will undergo format review within 3-5 business days of receipt. Students will receive an email notifying them of any required formatting corrections, and will be given a period of time to complete these requested changes, as well as to submit required paperwork and ensure Rs are removed from their transcripts. Typically, this second deadline will fall around the 27th of the month. Students should be aware that the dissertation submission is not considered final until they receive an email from the doctoral recorder stating that the dissertation has been accepted by the University Graduate School.
"Bloomington Cycles--Breaking Away" Event Call Out
The Buskirk-Chumley Theater proudly presents Bloomington Cycles – Breaking Away, a day long cycling/film experience, on Sunday, October 2, 2011, 3-10 PM. The event will feature a bike tour of memorable locations in Bloomington from the film (3-5 PM), a video shoot out competition (7PM) and a screening of the 1979 Breaking Away (directly following the video shoot out). Ticket are $15 for bike ride and screening and $5 for the screening alone. A $10 entry fee will be charged to all participants in the Breaking Away Video Shoot Out.
Video Shoot Out
In addition to showing the Hollywood classic, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater is encouraging local film makers to enter their own production. The rules stipulate a theme, the length of the finished film, a prop and one line of dialogue that have to be adhered to strictly will the movie be considered in the competition. The winning team will be awarded a prize. Teams interested can register at the BCT Box Office on Kirkwood Avenue, by phone (812) 323-3020 or at www.buskirkchumley.org and can start filming as early as July 1, 2011. All entries are due at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater by Monday, September 26, 2011 at 5PM.
Video Shoot Out
In addition to showing the Hollywood classic, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater is encouraging local film makers to enter their own production. The rules stipulate a theme, the length of the finished film, a prop and one line of dialogue that have to be adhered to strictly will the movie be considered in the competition. The winning team will be awarded a prize. Teams interested can register at the BCT Box Office on Kirkwood Avenue, by phone (812) 323-3020 or at www.buskirkchumley.org and can start filming as early as July 1, 2011. All entries are due at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater by Monday, September 26, 2011 at 5PM.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
IU Asian Culture Center Outreach e-Bulletin
Remembering 9/11: A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Location: Dogwood Room, IMU
Please join us in a panel discussion as we reflect upon the events of 9/11 and their ramifications for community, tolerance, and freedom. Special guest panelists include:
IU Professor Faiz Rahman, Jasjit Singh, Associate Executive Director, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), Reverend Linda C. Johnson, Episcopal Chaplin to IU and President of the IU Campus Religious Leaders Association and Rabbi Sue Laikin Silberberg, Executive Director, Helene G. Simon Hillel Center. Sponsored by IU Asian Culture Center, First Nations Educational and Cultural Center, and La Casa Latino Cultural Center
For more info, please email acc@indiana.edu or call (812) 856-5361
Asian Language Learning Program (Will begin the week of September 6, 2011)
Need tutoring in an Asian language? Need to learn basic survival phrases in an Asian language? Or to brush-up on your speaking skills? The ACC can help! We currently have informal classes at all levels (beginner, intermediate, and advanced) of Bahasa-Indonesia, Tagalog-Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Vietnamese. All informal classes are FREE and last one hour. Classes are held at the Asian Culture Center. Please visit our website www.indiana.edu/~acc for schedule of classes and registration.
Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Location: Dogwood Room, IMU
Please join us in a panel discussion as we reflect upon the events of 9/11 and their ramifications for community, tolerance, and freedom. Special guest panelists include:
IU Professor Faiz Rahman, Jasjit Singh, Associate Executive Director, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), Reverend Linda C. Johnson, Episcopal Chaplin to IU and President of the IU Campus Religious Leaders Association and Rabbi Sue Laikin Silberberg, Executive Director, Helene G. Simon Hillel Center. Sponsored by IU Asian Culture Center, First Nations Educational and Cultural Center, and La Casa Latino Cultural Center
For more info, please email acc@indiana.edu or call (812) 856-5361
Asian Language Learning Program (Will begin the week of September 6, 2011)
Need tutoring in an Asian language? Need to learn basic survival phrases in an Asian language? Or to brush-up on your speaking skills? The ACC can help! We currently have informal classes at all levels (beginner, intermediate, and advanced) of Bahasa-Indonesia, Tagalog-Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Vietnamese. All informal classes are FREE and last one hour. Classes are held at the Asian Culture Center. Please visit our website www.indiana.edu/~acc for schedule of classes and registration.
Fall 2011 CMCL Colloquium Schedule Now Available
The Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University is proud to announce the schedule for the Fall 2011 CMCL Colloquium Series:
The Richard Bauman Lecture
Speaker: Don Brenneis
Wednesday, September 14
Swain West, room 119
6:30 - 7:45 pm
Reception following in Classroom-Office Building upstairs Lobby
The Virginia LaFollete Gunderson Colloquium
Speaker: Mack Hagood (CMCL PhD Candidate)
Friday, September 16
Classroom Office Building, room 100
4-5 pm
Faculty Lecture
Speaker: Greg Waller
Friday, September 23
Swain East, room 105
4-5 pm
Guest Lecture
Speaker: Henry Jenkins
Friday, September 30
For a full schedule of Prof. Jenkins open events, click here.
Faculty Lecture
Speaker: Susan Lepselter
Friday, October 7
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
4-5 pm
The In/Visibility of America's 21st Century Wars Series Guest Lecture
Speaker: Suzanne Opton
Monday, October 10
Fine Arts Auditorium, room 012
7 pm
New Directions in Ethnography of Media Series Guest Lecture
Speaker: Deirdre de la Cruz
Friday, October 21
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
4-5 pm
Germanic Filmmaker Series Guest
Speaker: Monika Treut
Saturday-Tuesday October 22-25
For a full schedule of events, click here.
The In/Visibility of America's 21st Century Wars Series Guest Lecture
Speaker: Mike Shapiro
Monday, October 27
Fine Arts Auditorium, room 012
7 pm
The Robert Gunderson Forum in Rhetoric and Public Culture Guest Lecture
Speaker: Michael Butterworth (CMCL Alumnus)
Thursday-Friday, November 3-4
Location and Time TBA
The In/Visibility of America's 21st Century Wars Series Guest Lecture
Speaker: Roger Stahl
Monday, November 10
Fine Arts Auditorium, room 012
7 pm
The In/Visibility of America's 21st Century Wars Series Guest Lecture
Speaker: Diane Rubinstein
Monday, December 1
Fine Arts Auditorium, room 012
7 pm
For a complete schedule, including lecture titles, see the CMCL Colloquium Series link on the menu on the right, or linked from the CMCL Homepage.
The Richard Bauman Lecture
Speaker: Don Brenneis
Wednesday, September 14
Swain West, room 119
6:30 - 7:45 pm
Reception following in Classroom-Office Building upstairs Lobby
The Virginia LaFollete Gunderson Colloquium
Speaker: Mack Hagood (CMCL PhD Candidate)
Friday, September 16
Classroom Office Building, room 100
4-5 pm
Faculty Lecture
Speaker: Greg Waller
Friday, September 23
Swain East, room 105
4-5 pm
Guest Lecture
Speaker: Henry Jenkins
Friday, September 30
For a full schedule of Prof. Jenkins open events, click here.
Faculty Lecture
Speaker: Susan Lepselter
Friday, October 7
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
4-5 pm
The In/Visibility of America's 21st Century Wars Series Guest Lecture
Speaker: Suzanne Opton
Monday, October 10
Fine Arts Auditorium, room 012
7 pm
New Directions in Ethnography of Media Series Guest Lecture
Speaker: Deirdre de la Cruz
Friday, October 21
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
4-5 pm
Germanic Filmmaker Series Guest
Speaker: Monika Treut
Saturday-Tuesday October 22-25
For a full schedule of events, click here.
The In/Visibility of America's 21st Century Wars Series Guest Lecture
Speaker: Mike Shapiro
Monday, October 27
Fine Arts Auditorium, room 012
7 pm
The Robert Gunderson Forum in Rhetoric and Public Culture Guest Lecture
Speaker: Michael Butterworth (CMCL Alumnus)
Thursday-Friday, November 3-4
Location and Time TBA
The In/Visibility of America's 21st Century Wars Series Guest Lecture
Speaker: Roger Stahl
Monday, November 10
Fine Arts Auditorium, room 012
7 pm
The In/Visibility of America's 21st Century Wars Series Guest Lecture
Speaker: Diane Rubinstein
Monday, December 1
Fine Arts Auditorium, room 012
7 pm
For a complete schedule, including lecture titles, see the CMCL Colloquium Series link on the menu on the right, or linked from the CMCL Homepage.
Department of Telecommunications Media Arts & Sciences Speaker Series
Friday, Sept. 9, 2011
RTV 180
12:30-1:45 pm
All are invited for coffee/tea/cookies, a presentation and a discussion on the media.
Are the Media Shrinking?
David Waterman
Abstract:
I will present joint work in progress with Sung Wook Ji, Dept of Telecommunications. We find that combined revenues for 10 major media in the U.S. have steadily declined as a proportion of overall economic activity (GDP) from about 1999 to 2009 or 2010, approaching the lowest levels reached since 1950. For individual media, we find the same general pattern, with exception of television and video games, whose revenues have so far kept pace with GDP. We also find a marked overall shift away from advertiser toward direct payment support for the media over the past decade.
We consider 4 possible reasons for these revenue trends: shifts in consumer media usage; more difficult copyright protection; failing advertising business models, and of particular interest in this study:
reduced costs due to more efficient Internet distribution. A preliminary analysis of U.S. Census employment data for media industries since 1998 corroborates the declining revenue trends, but suggests that media production has declined less than have media distribution and exhibition functions.
BIO:
David Waterman is Professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is author of Hollywood’s Road to Riches (2005, Harvard University Press) and co-author of Vertical Integration in Cable Television (1997; MIT Press) with Andrew A.
Weiss. . His articles on market structure and public policy toward the media, the economics of motion picture production and distribution, international trade in motion pictures and video products, and other topics have appeared in numerous peer-reviewed communications and economic journals. Professor Waterman has presented his research in testimony before the U.S. Congress, and has served on expert panels or as a consultant for the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the General Accounting Office of the United States, and the Competition Bureau, Industry Canada. He served as a Principal Editor of Information Economics and Policy from 2005-10, and was Coordinating Editor from 2008-10. Before joining IU in 1993, David Waterman was a faculty member at USC, where he taught in the Annenberg School for Communications and in the Department of Economics.
http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/people/faculty/waterman.shtml
RTV 180
12:30-1:45 pm
All are invited for coffee/tea/cookies, a presentation and a discussion on the media.
Are the Media Shrinking?
David Waterman
Abstract:
I will present joint work in progress with Sung Wook Ji, Dept of Telecommunications. We find that combined revenues for 10 major media in the U.S. have steadily declined as a proportion of overall economic activity (GDP) from about 1999 to 2009 or 2010, approaching the lowest levels reached since 1950. For individual media, we find the same general pattern, with exception of television and video games, whose revenues have so far kept pace with GDP. We also find a marked overall shift away from advertiser toward direct payment support for the media over the past decade.
We consider 4 possible reasons for these revenue trends: shifts in consumer media usage; more difficult copyright protection; failing advertising business models, and of particular interest in this study:
reduced costs due to more efficient Internet distribution. A preliminary analysis of U.S. Census employment data for media industries since 1998 corroborates the declining revenue trends, but suggests that media production has declined less than have media distribution and exhibition functions.
BIO:
David Waterman is Professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is author of Hollywood’s Road to Riches (2005, Harvard University Press) and co-author of Vertical Integration in Cable Television (1997; MIT Press) with Andrew A.
Weiss. . His articles on market structure and public policy toward the media, the economics of motion picture production and distribution, international trade in motion pictures and video products, and other topics have appeared in numerous peer-reviewed communications and economic journals. Professor Waterman has presented his research in testimony before the U.S. Congress, and has served on expert panels or as a consultant for the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the General Accounting Office of the United States, and the Competition Bureau, Industry Canada. He served as a Principal Editor of Information Economics and Policy from 2005-10, and was Coordinating Editor from 2008-10. Before joining IU in 1993, David Waterman was a faculty member at USC, where he taught in the Annenberg School for Communications and in the Department of Economics.
http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/people/faculty/waterman.shtml
Post-doctoral Fellows Sought
Everyday Life: The Textures and Politics of the Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated
http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/fsprogramfuture12-13.html
Harvard's Charles Warren Center invites applications from scholars of U.S. cultural history, social history, performance studies, historical sociology and anthropology, and related fields to explore everyday life in the United States. This seminar seeks to develop new ways to connect the closely-observed textures of small-scale experiences to broad political concerns. How might we understand the expansive stakes in ordinary, persistent, and repeated activities? To explore this question, we seek scholars from diverse disciplines and interdisciplines who will bring to the conversation distinct analytical tools by which to examine everyday life. Scholars of any period or region of the U.S., or the U.S in transnational context, are welcome.
Topics of study may include everyday activities such as work, sex, public/civic engagement, consumption, schooling, religion, parenting, and the management of sickness and health; material culture (including clothing, food, books, vernacular architecture, land, computers, etc.); affect and emotions; and texts or performances that function through repetition or replication (theatre, periodical literature, photography, advertising, film, radio, television, MP3s, YouTube, etc.). Scholars who explore the connections between everyday life and the construction and maintenance of race, gender, sexuality, class, and other categories of analysis are especially welcome. Seminar participants will unite across diverse disciplines and topics through a shared commitment to analyzing the politics of ordinary rituals and behaviors.
Fellows will present their work in a seminar led by Robin Bernstein (African and African American Studies and Studies in Women, Gender, and Sexuality) and Lizabeth Cohen (History). Applicants may not be degree candidates and should have a Ph.D. or equivalent. We especially seek applicants who embrace the challenges of forging scholarly conversations across disciplines. Fellows have library privileges and an office which they must use for at least the 9-mo. academic year. Stipends: individually determined according to fellow needs and Center resources. Applications (from the website linked above), are due January 13, 2012; decisions in early March.
http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/fsprogramfuture12-13.html
Harvard's Charles Warren Center invites applications from scholars of U.S. cultural history, social history, performance studies, historical sociology and anthropology, and related fields to explore everyday life in the United States. This seminar seeks to develop new ways to connect the closely-observed textures of small-scale experiences to broad political concerns. How might we understand the expansive stakes in ordinary, persistent, and repeated activities? To explore this question, we seek scholars from diverse disciplines and interdisciplines who will bring to the conversation distinct analytical tools by which to examine everyday life. Scholars of any period or region of the U.S., or the U.S in transnational context, are welcome.
Topics of study may include everyday activities such as work, sex, public/civic engagement, consumption, schooling, religion, parenting, and the management of sickness and health; material culture (including clothing, food, books, vernacular architecture, land, computers, etc.); affect and emotions; and texts or performances that function through repetition or replication (theatre, periodical literature, photography, advertising, film, radio, television, MP3s, YouTube, etc.). Scholars who explore the connections between everyday life and the construction and maintenance of race, gender, sexuality, class, and other categories of analysis are especially welcome. Seminar participants will unite across diverse disciplines and topics through a shared commitment to analyzing the politics of ordinary rituals and behaviors.
Fellows will present their work in a seminar led by Robin Bernstein (African and African American Studies and Studies in Women, Gender, and Sexuality) and Lizabeth Cohen (History). Applicants may not be degree candidates and should have a Ph.D. or equivalent. We especially seek applicants who embrace the challenges of forging scholarly conversations across disciplines. Fellows have library privileges and an office which they must use for at least the 9-mo. academic year. Stipends: individually determined according to fellow needs and Center resources. Applications (from the website linked above), are due January 13, 2012; decisions in early March.
Walker Art Center - Archivist Job
The Walker''s Film Video department seeks candidates for the Bentson Fellow for Ruben/Bentson Film and Video Study Collection. This is a one year fellowship (anticipated start date - late Fall, 2011).
This full-time, exempt Fellow will work with Walker’s Film/Video Archives to manage the digitization and acquisition of works for the Ruben/Bentson Film and Video Study Collection. The Fellow will oversee the creation of a digital version of the current collection, work with curators to acquire new works for Collection, and make preparations as needed to present the Collection within the Walker via new digitized presentation platforms. The Fellow will research provenance and rights to reproduce, oversee technical transfers, seek sources to purchase digital versions to replicate film and analog video works, arrange loan requests, and maintain databases. In addition, the Fellow will oversee the acquisition of new work added to the Collection, catalog new works, prepare budget estimates of costs prior to digitizing works, and assist with preparation of annual budget assignments by assessing costs of film preservation.
Qualified applicants will have an M.A. degree with strong emphasis on cinema studies for film archive and preservation. Applicants must have excellent word processing, computer, and office skills including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint applications. Strong organizational and communication skills required. Physical ability to lift and move 25 lbs. or more on a regular basis is essential.
Fellowship stipend: $25,000/year; excellent benefits offered.
To apply, click here.
This full-time, exempt Fellow will work with Walker’s Film/Video Archives to manage the digitization and acquisition of works for the Ruben/Bentson Film and Video Study Collection. The Fellow will oversee the creation of a digital version of the current collection, work with curators to acquire new works for Collection, and make preparations as needed to present the Collection within the Walker via new digitized presentation platforms. The Fellow will research provenance and rights to reproduce, oversee technical transfers, seek sources to purchase digital versions to replicate film and analog video works, arrange loan requests, and maintain databases. In addition, the Fellow will oversee the acquisition of new work added to the Collection, catalog new works, prepare budget estimates of costs prior to digitizing works, and assist with preparation of annual budget assignments by assessing costs of film preservation.
Qualified applicants will have an M.A. degree with strong emphasis on cinema studies for film archive and preservation. Applicants must have excellent word processing, computer, and office skills including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint applications. Strong organizational and communication skills required. Physical ability to lift and move 25 lbs. or more on a regular basis is essential.
Fellowship stipend: $25,000/year; excellent benefits offered.
To apply, click here.
September 15: Sumit Ganguly, "Discord and Collaboration in Indo-Pakistani Relations"
Dhar India Studies Program
825 E 8th St.
812 855 5798
The first lecture of the Fall Lecture Series will be given by Sumit Ganguly, 5:30pm, at India House. Dr. Ganguly’s talk, “Discord and Collaboration in Indo-Pakistani Relations” has also been listed as a Themester talk on the official calendar for this year’s series, “Making War, Making Peace.”
There will be a brief reception preceding the talk in honor of Dr. Ganguly’s tenure as Director, beginning at 4:45pm. We hope to see you.
As the talk is publicly listed, there is the possibility that it will be crowded—this is always difficult to judge. Please factor that into your plans.
825 E 8th St.
812 855 5798
The first lecture of the Fall Lecture Series will be given by Sumit Ganguly, 5:30pm, at India House. Dr. Ganguly’s talk, “Discord and Collaboration in Indo-Pakistani Relations” has also been listed as a Themester talk on the official calendar for this year’s series, “Making War, Making Peace.”
There will be a brief reception preceding the talk in honor of Dr. Ganguly’s tenure as Director, beginning at 4:45pm. We hope to see you.
As the talk is publicly listed, there is the possibility that it will be crowded—this is always difficult to judge. Please factor that into your plans.
CFP: Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2012-Paris
The Association for Cultural Studies is very pleased to release the Call for Papers for the next Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference, to be held 2-6 July 2012 in Paris, France. Conference details are below. Submission forms for both papers and sessions can be found on the conference website: http://www.crossroads2012.org
For more information, click here.
For more information, click here.
Employment Opportunity: University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks outstanding applicants at the rank of Assistant Professor, tenure-track, to begin in fall 2012. Candidates will be expected to conduct creative work and/or research in digital media, as well as to develop and teach courses in the theory and practice of digital media production. The new faculty member will teach a large introductory first-year course that emphasizes the convergence of interactive media, moving image, and audio production under a special initiative from the Chancellor. Candidates should possess broad-based skills in interactive web design and programming with HTML/ CSS, high-definition video shooting and editing, sound design, and media compression for broadband delivery.
For more information, click here.
For more information, click here.
Employment Opportunities: Southwestern University
The Department of Communication Studies at Southwestern University invites applications for the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Communication Studies with a specialization in rhetorical studies. Strong candidates will demonstrate teaching and research interests that intersect with the department?s focus on critical inquiry into the rhetorical, performative, cultural, material, and ideological dimensions of communication. Ideal candidates will demonstrate an ability to develop and teach courses in rhetoric and at the intersections of rhetoric and media studies, including courses in one or more of the following areas: rhetorical traditions, rhetorical criticism, critical rhetorical studies, rhetorics of sexuality, rhetorics of gender, rhetorics of the body, rhetoric and identity, rhetoric and performance, and rhetoric and materiality.
For more information, click here.
For more information, click here.
"Self-Promotion for the Academic Job Market (and Tenure)"
Thursday, September 8
4:40-5:30 pm
Ballantine 006
Cheryl Ball
Associate Professor of Media Studies
Department of English, Illinois State University:
How can graduate students develop electronic portfolios for their job searches? How can faculty make use of such portfolios for their tenure cases? Cheryl Ball will draw on her own experiences to address these questions. She has published much on digital technology and is editor of KAIROS, a leading e-journal in rhetorical studies.
For further information, contact John Schilb (jschilb@indiana.edu) or Scott Herring (tsherrin@indiana.edu).
4:40-5:30 pm
Ballantine 006
Cheryl Ball
Associate Professor of Media Studies
Department of English, Illinois State University:
How can graduate students develop electronic portfolios for their job searches? How can faculty make use of such portfolios for their tenure cases? Cheryl Ball will draw on her own experiences to address these questions. She has published much on digital technology and is editor of KAIROS, a leading e-journal in rhetorical studies.
For further information, contact John Schilb (jschilb@indiana.edu) or Scott Herring (tsherrin@indiana.edu).
Friday, September 2, 2011
Henry Jenkins to Visit IUB in September
Prof. Jenkins will be at IU for the following 3 events (all scheduled for Friday September 30). All events are free and open to the public:
EVENT 1:
Friday September 30
11:15AM-12:30PM
RTV 180 (IUB, 790 E Kirkwood Ave):
Graduate Student Brown Bag discussion with Professor Jenkins, in partnership with the Department of Telecommunications' Media Arts and Sciences Lecture Series. Graduate students get first dibs on lunches provided (first come, first served). Join the conversation with Professor Jenkins as he discusses the threads that connect his distinguished and interdisciplinary scholarship.
EVENT 2:
Friday September 30
1:30PM-3:00PM
Optometry 105 (IUB, 744 East 3rd Street):
The Rob Kling Center for Social Infomatics (RKCSI), in partnership with Digital@IU, Indiana University’s Department of Communication and Culture, The School of Education, Department of Telecommunications, and the Sawyer Seminar on Science Studies, presents:
Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California
RKCSI LECTURE SERIES TITLE: Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture
ABSTRACT: Of all of the changes in the new media environment over the past two decades, perhaps the biggest has been a shift in how media content circulates -- away from top-down corporate controlled distribution and into a still emerging hybrid system where everyday people play an increasingly central role in how media spreads. Cultural Studies has historically been centered around issues of production and reception and has had much less to say about circulation. What issues emerge when we put the process of grassroots (often unauthorized) circulation at the center of our focus? How does it change our accounts of the relationships between mass media and participatory culture? How might it shake up existing models of viral media and web 2.0? This far-reaching talk, based on a forthcoming book which Henry Jenkins has authored with Sam Ford and Joshua Green, offers snapshots of a culture-in-process, a media ecology which is still taking shape, suggesting what it means not only for the futures of entertainment but also of civic life.
EVENT 3:
Friday September 30
5PM-7PM
FARMbloomington (108 East Kirkwood Ave),
Please join us, from 5PM-7PM at FARMbloomington, for a reception honoring Henry and celebrating the launch of the Digital@IU initiative, a research collaboration of faculty and graduate students from the Departments of Communication and Culture, Telecommunications, and the School of Journalism. Free appetizers and a cash bar will be provided. Get to the party before the good eats disappear!
Jenkins Bio:
Henry Jenkins is the Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He arrived at USC in Fall 2009 after spending the past decade as the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of twelve books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture and From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. His newest books include Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. He is currently co-authoring a book on "spreadable media" with Sam Ford and Joshua Green. He has written for Technology Review, Computer Games, Salon, and The Huffington Post.
BONUS!
Cultural anthropologist Dr. Mimi Ito will deliver a keynote at the 2011 Statewide IT Conference (http://citl.indiana.edu/news/Mimi_Ito.php), in the Whittennberger Auditorium at 3:30 pm on Friday Sept. 30 to be followed by a roundtable discussion with Stacy Morrone, associate dean for learning technologies, and Sonya Stephens, vice-provost for undergraduate education. In her presentation "Connected Learning In the Networked Age," Ito will discuss how today's young people are growing up in a very different ecology of culture and knowledge than that experienced by earlier generations. The Internet, digital media production tools, portable media, and immersive social gaming environments are part of broad-based shifts in how we express ourselves, produce and access knowledge, and connect with others. Mimo Ito is an expert on the content of educational games and software, their production, distribution, marketing, and how children use them in play.
EVENT 1:
Friday September 30
11:15AM-12:30PM
RTV 180 (IUB, 790 E Kirkwood Ave):
Graduate Student Brown Bag discussion with Professor Jenkins, in partnership with the Department of Telecommunications' Media Arts and Sciences Lecture Series. Graduate students get first dibs on lunches provided (first come, first served). Join the conversation with Professor Jenkins as he discusses the threads that connect his distinguished and interdisciplinary scholarship.
EVENT 2:
Friday September 30
1:30PM-3:00PM
Optometry 105 (IUB, 744 East 3rd Street):
The Rob Kling Center for Social Infomatics (RKCSI), in partnership with Digital@IU, Indiana University’s Department of Communication and Culture, The School of Education, Department of Telecommunications, and the Sawyer Seminar on Science Studies, presents:
Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California
RKCSI LECTURE SERIES TITLE: Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture
ABSTRACT: Of all of the changes in the new media environment over the past two decades, perhaps the biggest has been a shift in how media content circulates -- away from top-down corporate controlled distribution and into a still emerging hybrid system where everyday people play an increasingly central role in how media spreads. Cultural Studies has historically been centered around issues of production and reception and has had much less to say about circulation. What issues emerge when we put the process of grassroots (often unauthorized) circulation at the center of our focus? How does it change our accounts of the relationships between mass media and participatory culture? How might it shake up existing models of viral media and web 2.0? This far-reaching talk, based on a forthcoming book which Henry Jenkins has authored with Sam Ford and Joshua Green, offers snapshots of a culture-in-process, a media ecology which is still taking shape, suggesting what it means not only for the futures of entertainment but also of civic life.
EVENT 3:
Friday September 30
5PM-7PM
FARMbloomington (108 East Kirkwood Ave),
Please join us, from 5PM-7PM at FARMbloomington, for a reception honoring Henry and celebrating the launch of the Digital@IU initiative, a research collaboration of faculty and graduate students from the Departments of Communication and Culture, Telecommunications, and the School of Journalism. Free appetizers and a cash bar will be provided. Get to the party before the good eats disappear!
Jenkins Bio:
Henry Jenkins is the Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He arrived at USC in Fall 2009 after spending the past decade as the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of twelve books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture and From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. His newest books include Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. He is currently co-authoring a book on "spreadable media" with Sam Ford and Joshua Green. He has written for Technology Review, Computer Games, Salon, and The Huffington Post.
BONUS!
Cultural anthropologist Dr. Mimi Ito will deliver a keynote at the 2011 Statewide IT Conference (http://citl.indiana.edu/news/Mimi_Ito.php), in the Whittennberger Auditorium at 3:30 pm on Friday Sept. 30 to be followed by a roundtable discussion with Stacy Morrone, associate dean for learning technologies, and Sonya Stephens, vice-provost for undergraduate education. In her presentation "Connected Learning In the Networked Age," Ito will discuss how today's young people are growing up in a very different ecology of culture and knowledge than that experienced by earlier generations. The Internet, digital media production tools, portable media, and immersive social gaming environments are part of broad-based shifts in how we express ourselves, produce and access knowledge, and connect with others. Mimo Ito is an expert on the content of educational games and software, their production, distribution, marketing, and how children use them in play.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Graduate Language Proficiency Exam - Italian
The Graduate Language Proficiency Exam for Fall 2011 has been scheduled for Friday, September 30 from 9-11 AM. The location is TBA.
Two hours will be given to complete the translation of a two-page text selected by the Italian Graduate Language Examiner. Reference materials such as dictionaries and smart phones are not allowed. Blue books will be provided.
If you would like to register, send your name, ID number, and Department to fritgs@indiana.edu by Friday, September 23.
Two hours will be given to complete the translation of a two-page text selected by the Italian Graduate Language Examiner. Reference materials such as dictionaries and smart phones are not allowed. Blue books will be provided.
If you would like to register, send your name, ID number, and Department to fritgs@indiana.edu by Friday, September 23.
Employment Opportunity: University of Illinois at Chicago
The Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago invites applications for an Assistant Professor, tenure-track position, in game studies and mobile media. We are looking for a faculty member who will engage with scholars in the humanities, social sciences, engineering, education and health sciences around the core interests of the digital humanities. Related areas include social networks, social capital, digital literacies, digital disparities, education, privacy, civic engagement and policymaking.
For more information, click here.
For more information, click here.
Employment Opportunity: Northwestern University
The Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University seeks to hire in organizational communication for an appointment beginning September 1, 2012. The appointment will be either a tenure-track position at the rank assistant professor, or, in the case of a truly exceptional candidate of appropriate experience, a tenured position at the rank of associate professor. The successful candidate will be expected to publish innovative research, teach undergraduate and graduate courses, and perform professional service commensurate with rank.
We welcome applicants from a range of theoretical and methodological approaches who study either formal or informal organizations, or the process of organizing more broadly. We are particularly interested in scholars who study the communicative aspects of distributed work, social movement processes, innovation, globalization, technological change, virtual worlds, or organizing processes in healthcare or the creative industries. Potential to attract external funding is expected. The position includes the opportunity to teach in a professional master’s degree program.
For more information, click here.
We welcome applicants from a range of theoretical and methodological approaches who study either formal or informal organizations, or the process of organizing more broadly. We are particularly interested in scholars who study the communicative aspects of distributed work, social movement processes, innovation, globalization, technological change, virtual worlds, or organizing processes in healthcare or the creative industries. Potential to attract external funding is expected. The position includes the opportunity to teach in a professional master’s degree program.
For more information, click here.
Employment Opportunity: University of Washington
The University of Washington seeks a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of communication technology and society in the Department of Communication.
Candidates should have interests in computer-mediated communication or digital media in one or more of the following areas: interpersonal communication, organizational communication, entrepreneurship and innovation, interactive content, political and civic engagement, transnational communication, health communication or science and technology studies. Preference will be given to candidates with strong empirical research skills combined with an engagement with communication or media theory. Research skills could include web-based research such as social network analysis, web and mobile analytics, data aggregation and data mining, computational social science, or other modes of communication inquiry. The start date for this position is September 16, 2012. Candidates must have earned or be close to completion of a Ph.D. by then.
For more information, click here.
Candidates should have interests in computer-mediated communication or digital media in one or more of the following areas: interpersonal communication, organizational communication, entrepreneurship and innovation, interactive content, political and civic engagement, transnational communication, health communication or science and technology studies. Preference will be given to candidates with strong empirical research skills combined with an engagement with communication or media theory. Research skills could include web-based research such as social network analysis, web and mobile analytics, data aggregation and data mining, computational social science, or other modes of communication inquiry. The start date for this position is September 16, 2012. Candidates must have earned or be close to completion of a Ph.D. by then.
For more information, click here.
Grad Grants Center Hours - Fall 2011
Mondays 10:00-2:00
Tuesdays 10:00-3:00
Wednesdays 10:00-2:00
Thursdays 10:00-3:00 and 4:30-6:30
Fridays 10:00-5:00
Please have your 10-digit university ID number available when you make an appointment at the GGC.
The GradGrants Center is a FREE service available to ALL Indiana University graduate students. The GGC provides centralized information to assist students in the search for funding for research and graduate study, training on various topics related to funding and one-on-one proposal consulting by appointment.
Please e-mail or call to make an appointment.
GradGrants Center
Herman B. Wells Library, East Tower, Room E651
E-mail: gradgrnt@indiana.edu
Telephone: 812-855-5281
Website: www.indiana.edu/~gradgrnt
Tuesdays 10:00-3:00
Wednesdays 10:00-2:00
Thursdays 10:00-3:00 and 4:30-6:30
Fridays 10:00-5:00
Please have your 10-digit university ID number available when you make an appointment at the GGC.
The GradGrants Center is a FREE service available to ALL Indiana University graduate students. The GGC provides centralized information to assist students in the search for funding for research and graduate study, training on various topics related to funding and one-on-one proposal consulting by appointment.
Please e-mail or call to make an appointment.
GradGrants Center
Herman B. Wells Library, East Tower, Room E651
E-mail: gradgrnt@indiana.edu
Telephone: 812-855-5281
Website: www.indiana.edu/~gradgrnt
IU Asian Cultural Center e-Bulletin
ACC Welcome Reception featuring Information Tables from Asian Student Groups
Date: Friday, September 2, 2011
Time: 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
It would be great if you could join us in welcoming back our new and returning students. We look forward to seeing you! RSVP by emailing acc@indiana.edu
Remembering 9/11: A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Location: Dogwood Room, IMU
Please join us in a panel discussion as we reflect upon the events of 9/11 and their ramifications for community, tolerance, and freedom. Special guest panelists include:
IU Professor Faiz Rahman, Jasjit Singh, Associate Executive Director, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), Reverend Linda C. Johnson, Episcopal Chaplin to IU and President of the IU Campus Religious Leaders Association and Rabbi Sue Laikin Silberberg, Executive Director, Helene G. Simon Hillel Center. Sponsored by IU Asian Culture Center, First Nations Educational and Cultural Center, and La Casa Latino Cultural Center
For more info, please email acc@indiana.edu or call (812) 856-5361
Asian Language Learning Program (Will begin the week of September 6, 2011)
Need tutoring in an Asian language? Need to learn basic survival phrases in an Asian language? Or to brush-up on your speaking skills? The ACC can help! We currently have informal classes at all levels (beginner, intermediate, and advanced) of Bahasa-Indonesia, Tagalog-Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Vietnamese. All informal classes are FREE and last one hour. Classes are held at the Asian Culture Center. Please visit our website www.indiana.edu/~acc for schedule of classes and registration.
Do you know of a student who may need to add another course? Consider Asian American History HIST A205
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4-5:15 pm, Woodburn 106 Professor Ellen Wu
This course explores the history of Asian Americans in the United States from the mid-19th century to the present as part of the making of a “Pacific World.” Drawing from a range of disciplinary approaches, we will investigate various local and global forces that have shaped the lives of Asian Americans, as well as the ways in which Asian Americans have impacted regional, national, and international dynamics in the past 150 years. In thinking about the multiplicity of peoples and experiences identified as “Asian American,” we will interrogate what it has meant, and what it means, to be “Asian American,” and why these questions matter. Major themes to be explored include migration, labor, community formation, race, gender, citizenship, empire, war, nation, and transnationalism. Special emphasis will be given to the analysis of a range of primary sources as an introduction to the historian’s task of reading and interpreting the past.
A205 carries IUB Gen Ed S&H credit, COLL S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit, and COLL Cultural Studies credit. A205 also counts towards the minor in Asian American Studies. For more info, please email Assistant Professor Ellen D. Wu, History Department, Indiana University
Date: Friday, September 2, 2011
Time: 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
It would be great if you could join us in welcoming back our new and returning students. We look forward to seeing you! RSVP by emailing acc@indiana.edu
Remembering 9/11: A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Location: Dogwood Room, IMU
Please join us in a panel discussion as we reflect upon the events of 9/11 and their ramifications for community, tolerance, and freedom. Special guest panelists include:
IU Professor Faiz Rahman, Jasjit Singh, Associate Executive Director, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), Reverend Linda C. Johnson, Episcopal Chaplin to IU and President of the IU Campus Religious Leaders Association and Rabbi Sue Laikin Silberberg, Executive Director, Helene G. Simon Hillel Center. Sponsored by IU Asian Culture Center, First Nations Educational and Cultural Center, and La Casa Latino Cultural Center
For more info, please email acc@indiana.edu or call (812) 856-5361
Asian Language Learning Program (Will begin the week of September 6, 2011)
Need tutoring in an Asian language? Need to learn basic survival phrases in an Asian language? Or to brush-up on your speaking skills? The ACC can help! We currently have informal classes at all levels (beginner, intermediate, and advanced) of Bahasa-Indonesia, Tagalog-Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Vietnamese. All informal classes are FREE and last one hour. Classes are held at the Asian Culture Center. Please visit our website www.indiana.edu/~acc for schedule of classes and registration.
Do you know of a student who may need to add another course? Consider Asian American History HIST A205
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4-5:15 pm, Woodburn 106 Professor Ellen Wu
This course explores the history of Asian Americans in the United States from the mid-19th century to the present as part of the making of a “Pacific World.” Drawing from a range of disciplinary approaches, we will investigate various local and global forces that have shaped the lives of Asian Americans, as well as the ways in which Asian Americans have impacted regional, national, and international dynamics in the past 150 years. In thinking about the multiplicity of peoples and experiences identified as “Asian American,” we will interrogate what it has meant, and what it means, to be “Asian American,” and why these questions matter. Major themes to be explored include migration, labor, community formation, race, gender, citizenship, empire, war, nation, and transnationalism. Special emphasis will be given to the analysis of a range of primary sources as an introduction to the historian’s task of reading and interpreting the past.
A205 carries IUB Gen Ed S&H credit, COLL S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit, and COLL Cultural Studies credit. A205 also counts towards the minor in Asian American Studies. For more info, please email Assistant Professor Ellen D. Wu, History Department, Indiana University
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